On 09/13/2010 08:07 PM, Etienne Goyer wrote: > On 10-09-13 08:23 PM, Daniel Curry wrote: >> Sounds a lot like MTAs and MUAs. > > The Linux MTA landscape have pretty much converged toward Postfix, with > Sendmail being an important legacy. Exim and Courier are really just > minor players in that space, and should probably not be covered in the > exam IMHO.
Exim is widely used in hosting, cpanel/whm for example uses exim for virtual domains with antivirus and spam filtering, I usually have to support a few customers with their hosting server, and try to fix something, the same for qmail, qmail is the default in plesk hosting, a lot of linux servers are in running the hosting market. > > The MUA situation is, indeed, all over the place and I am not sure they > are worth being covered in the exam either (would there be question on > Thunderbird? Mutt? Evolution? Pine?). > > In a nutshell, if it was my call, I would have this exam cover: > > - Postfix in depth; > - Sendmail in depth, focusing on the traditional interface, and possibly > covering milter (although I am not entirely sure about that); > - Courier and Exim in passing; > - MUA not at all, except for some knowledge of the the traditional mail > command. > > > But that is just my 0,02$. > > >> On 9/13/2010 6:18 PM, Etienne Goyer wrote: >>> >>>> Webmail systems such as squirrelmail, Horde, RoundCube and the like >>>> should also be added as clients. >>> This is a hard call. There is no clear leader in the webmail >>> application space, and it changes all the time. I would leave it out of >>> the objectives. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> lpi-examdev mailing list >>> lpi-examdev@lpi.org >>> http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lpi-examdev mailing list >> lpi-examdev@lpi.org >> http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev > > _______________________________________________ > lpi-examdev mailing list > lpi-examdev@lpi.org > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev -- Compugraf _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
