Postfix Anatomy - Behind the Scenes


Note: this web page is no longer maintained. It exists only to avoid breaking links in web pages that describe earlier versions of the Postfix mail system.

Up one level | Receiving Mail | Delivering Mail | Behind the Scenes | Command-line Utilities

The previous sections gave a simplified overview of how the Postfix system sends and receives mail. Several other things happen behind the scenes. Unfortunately, this is hard to visualize on a two-dimensional display, so this document has no illustration.


Up one level | Receiving Mail | Delivering Mail | Behind the Scenes | Command-line Utilities