5 <title>Postfix Mail System Anatomy
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13 Mail System Anatomy
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17 <p> <strong> Note: this web page is no longer maintained. It exists
18 only to avoid breaking links in web pages that describe earlier
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22 Overview
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23 Configuration
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25 <h2>Table of contents
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29 <li><a href=
"receiving.html">Receiving mail
</a>. What path a
30 message takes on its way into the Postfix mail system, and what
31 programs are involved. Lots of daemons, mostly.
35 <li><a href=
"delivering.html">Delivering mail
</a>. An introduction
36 to the machinery that is responsible for delivering mail: queues,
37 a queue manager, and more daemons.
41 <li><a href=
"backstage.html">Behind the scenes
</a>. What happens
42 behind the scenes while mail is flowing through the Postfix system:
43 another manager, and still more daemons.
47 <li><a href=
"commands.html">Command-line utilities
</a>. Auxiliary
48 programs that people interact with when using the Postfix mail
49 system. No daemons here.
55 <a href=
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"overview.html">Postfix
56 Overview
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<a href=
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57 Configuration
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<a href=
"faq.html">Postfix FAQ
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