[Dovecot] What would you tell the CIO in an "ABCs of Email" overview?

[Gabriel Millerd]

On 5/7/07, Esther Schindler <esther at bitranch.com> wrote:
> One of the key points that came up when I researched and wrote the
> "Five Things CIOs Should Know about Fighting Spam" article (http://
> www.cio.com/article/28830) was that they should know the basics of
> how email works. Otherwise, said plenty of techies, the CIO won't
> have the first idea of what the email admin is complaining about.
>

While its not 'ABC' the email loop is covered quite well here and that
loop is needed to understand spam. Any talk if rcpt rules, relays,
dnsbl, group level / user level bayes, will havea good reference
there. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailServerOverview

Buffetted with something like these
http://www.dbmail.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=bigpicture
http://www.postfix.org/big-picture.html

-- 
Gabriel Millerd