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@ -85,22 +85,21 @@ When it comes to the specifics of email exchange, we have to look at protocols a
| Retrieval | IMAP4 | 143 (encrypted using STARTTLS) + 993 (TLS) | | Retrieval | IMAP4 | 143 (encrypted using STARTTLS) + 993 (TLS) |
| Retrieval | POP3 | _Not activated_ | | Retrieval | POP3 | _Not activated_ |
If you're new to the field, that table may be confusing.
Read on to gain insights about docker-mailserver's configuration and how you may customize it.
On a final note, here's what docker-mailserver's default configuration provides you with (feel free to skip this schema for now):
```txt ```txt
┏━━━━━━━━ Submission ━━━━━━━━┓┏━━━━━━━━━━━━ Transfer/Relay ━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┏━━━━━━━━━━ Submission ━━━━━━━━━┓┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Transfer/Relay ━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┌────────────────────┐ ┌┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┐ ┌─────────────────────┐ ┌┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┐
Sending an email: MUA --- STARTTLS --> ┤(587) MTA ╮ (25)├ <-- plain text --> ┊ Third-party MTA ┊ Sending an email: MUA ----- STARTTLS ---> ┤(587) MTA ╮ (25)├ <-- plain text --> ┊ Third-party MTA ┊
|┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄| └┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┘ ---- plain text --> ┤(25) │ | └┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┘
Fetching an email: MUA <-- STARTTLS --- ┤(143) MDA ╯ | |┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄|
<---- TLS ------ ┤(993) | Fetching an email: MUA <---- STARTTLS ---- ┤(143) MDA ╯ |
└────────────────────┘ <-- enforced TLS -- ┤(993) |
┗━━━━━━━━━ Retrieval ━━━━━━━━━┛ └─────────────────────┘
┗━━━━━━━━━━ Retrieval ━━━━━━━━━━┛
``` ```
If you're new to the field, both that table and schema may be confusing.
Read on to gain insights about all those concepts, docker-mailserver's configuration and how you could customize it.
### Submission - SMTP ### Submission - SMTP
A MUA willing to send an email to a MTA needs to establish a connection with that server, then push data packets over a network that both the MUA (client) and the MTA (server) are connected to. The server implements the [SMTP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol) protocol, which makes it capable of handling _Submission_. A MUA willing to send an email to a MTA needs to establish a connection with that server, then push data packets over a network that both the MUA (client) and the MTA (server) are connected to. The server implements the [SMTP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol) protocol, which makes it capable of handling _Submission_.