Sendmail basic information: mail server

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## 3. mail server

In most organization, there is one machine which store email for all users, even if the email may originated from different machines. Unix machines are multiuser. It is possible for a user to send email to another user on this machine. The default behavior is to store the message in the mail folder of the user on this machine. This is often inappropriate. Unix machines are not only multiuser, but network oriented. This user (the recipient) may very well have accounts on many machines on the network (often on all machines) and may elect to read his email messages on another machine. Having his email messages spread-ed on all machines on the net is not useful.

You just specify the fully qualified name of the mail server of the organization and all email messages will be forward to it.

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