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Using Configuring Sendmail - Quiz

Using and configuring sendmail

Each question is worth one point. Select the best answer or answers for each question.

1. What is masquerading?
Please select the best answer.
  A. The ability to refer to email users by simple nicknames
  B. The ability to relay or forward mail from one system to another
  C. The ability for a sendmail daemon to rewrite a subdomain’s email address
  D. The ability for sendmail to alert you concerning system events

2. What is the purpose of the M4 macros?
Please select the best answer.
  A. To generate sendmail.cf files
  B. To list the location of the spooling directory
  C. To list names used by the local host
  D. To describe the location of the aliases file

3. What is the primary configuration file for sendmail?
Please select the best answer.
  A. sendmail.cw
  B. maillog
  C. sendmail.cf
  D. /usr/sbin/sendmail

4. You want to configure your sendmail daemon to use more simple email names than their login and machine names. What is the name for the ability to use a different email name than the UNIX login name?
Please select the best answer.
  A. Masquerading
  B. Aliasing
  C. Forwarding
  D. Spoofing

5. What is the well-known port number for the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP)?
Please select the best answer.
  A. 28
  B. 32
  C. 31
  D. 25

6. What does the MX field in an MX record denote?
Please select the best answer.
  A. An entire domain
  B. A mail exchange host
  C. A subdomain host
  D. The recipient’s server

7. What is the purpose of the sendmail –C option?
Please select the best answer.
  A. To run sendmail in debugging mode
  B. To run sendmail in verify mode
  C. To have sendmail capture all output in a text file
  D. To use an alternative configuration file

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