From 5a31fc72fcca6ab0520f0fbea64f80b4eeeb006c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean-Denis Vauguet Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 08:08:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Updated A mail server's 101 (markdown) --- docs/content/a-mail-server's-101.md | 12 +----------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/content/a-mail-server's-101.md b/docs/content/a-mail-server's-101.md index 0348a8b5..c096f4c5 100644 --- a/docs/content/a-mail-server's-101.md +++ b/docs/content/a-mail-server's-101.md @@ -44,17 +44,7 @@ Fetching an email: MUA <------------------------------ ┫ MDA ╯ ┃ ┗━━━━━━━┛ ``` -In its simplest use-case, docker-mailserver will handle direct email trafic bound to a specific hostname: a MUA establishes a direct connection to docker-mailserver's MTA, authenticates and submits an email. Thus our schema could be further simplified to look like this: - -```txt - docker-mailserver is here: - ┏━━━━━━━┓ -Sending an email: MUA ---> ┫ MTA ╮ ┃ -Fetching an email: MUA <--- ┫ MDA ╯ ┃ - ┗━━━━━━━┛ -``` - -> Of course the MUA and docker-mailserver's MTA may be located in distant (network-wise) places, so don't expect a _direct_ connection between MUAs and your mail server. It is very likely email trafic will hop through several relaying TCP servers-but those will not be MTA servers, so are irrelevant here. +> Of course the MUA and docker-mailserver's MTA are likely to be located in distant places (network-wise), so don't expect a _direct_ connection between MUAs and your mail server. It is very likely email trafic will hop through several relays: some will be TCP servers, some will be MTAs. MUA only has control over the first "hop", and that will prove important when it comes to securing email trafic. One important thing to note is that MTA and MDA programs may actually handle _multiple_ tasks (which is the case with docker-mailserver's Postfix and Dovecot).