Hey everyone and welcome back. So what we're going to be focusing on in this skill right
here is all around the subject of email now as modern consumers of the internet I'm sure
we all know what email is all about. But the reality is for the purposes of the L-PIC
to examination the configuration of email that we have to deal with is a little bit
different than just logging in to your Gmail account or your Hotmail account whatever it
may be. So let's talk about some of the things that we're going to be looking at within this
skill and then we'll dive right into the configurations. Okay, so the very first thing that we're going
to really focus on is email server configuration. That is having our own little email server
directly on our machine. So right now I have an Ubuntu distribution. I'm going to install
a particular email server for this distro after which we're going to look at some particular
configurations with respect to reading and managing your emails locally. So once we get
some type of email coming into our system, we want to be able to retrieve that and read
it just like you can when you're managing your regular emails. Now the reality is once we actually
install our email server, this functionality will be built in to that server, which makes sense.
But quite honestly, the default configuration is not the best way to handle this problem.
And once again, for the purposes of the L-PIC to examination, we have to understand some
different alternatives or add-ons, should I say to really simplify this process, we will definitely
look at handling local emails. And then at the very end, what we're going to do is we're going
to look at how we can manage remote emails. This is going to focus on how we can retrieve emails
remotely using things such as IMAP and pop three, we'll get to talk about what those are very, very
shortly. And that means briefly looking at two servers, one of which is called a courier server,
and the other is called the Dovecott server. So all of this information is coming up within this
skill. So the best thing for us to do is to roll up our sleeves and dive right in. So the very first
thing we will be looking at is that server configuration. And that is what we're going
to be talking about in the very next nuggets. I hope this has been informative for you. And I'd
like to thank you for viewing.