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#Configure your Thunderbird application (installed in Lab 4b) to allow the user to send and receive email messages using the '''pine''' and '''fir''' servers.
Updating description because thuderbird does not play nicely with mbox format.
#Any mail sent directly from this machine will use the domain as the sending address (i.e. user@coniferous.trees.ops)
#You are NOT required to encrypt received email messages.
#This machine will relay received email messages for any user account in the '''coniferous.trees.ops''' domain and any named machine in that domain to the IMAP server (i.e. the '''fir''' virtual machine).
=== Set-up Mail Delivery Agent / Message Store ('''fir''') ===
#Create a '''regular user''' for this virtual machine using '''your Seneca userID'''.
#The root user on your host machine must be able to ssh to the root account on each machine without being prompted for a password.
#This machine will accept incoming email for any user account in the '''coniferous.trees.ops''' domain and any named machine in that domain.
#No other machine in this domain will accept incoming email.
#This machine will be an IMAP server (i.e. NOT POP3 or LTMP).
#This machine will NOT use encryption.
#This machine will be used use postifx's built-in LDA to store received emails in MBOX maildir format in the a sub-directory of each users' home directory /var/called mailboxes.#Any mail/mailboxessent to root will be automatically delivered into the mailbox of the '''regular user''' created above.#Configure your Thunderbird application (installed in Lab 4b) to allow the user to send and receive email messages using the '''pine''' and '''fir''' servers.
Add MX records to the forward lookup zone on your balsam DNS server so that all incoming mail addressed to the domain is sent to your IMAP server ('''fir''') first, and the MTA ('''pine''') as a fall-back.
=== Set-up a Samba Server ('''bristlecone''')===
