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Title: sendmail Cookbook by Craig Hunt ISBN: 0-596-00471-0 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Summary: A Much Easier Way to Handle Sendmail
Comment: The first killer application of the Internet was email. For over twenty years, the most common program used to handle this was sendmail, written by Eric Allman. Over this time, sendmail has become a fully fledged language, with a very inelegant syntax. To learn how this, you need the book "Sendmail" by Costales and Allman.
The basic problem is that twenty years of ever increasing complexity in mail handling has created concomitant complexity in sendmail. For system adminstrators, the sendmail configuration files are probably the most complicated things they have to understand and maintain.
The rub is that most sysadmins have many duties, and little time to thoroughly read the above book. What is needed is a crib sheet, that lets you quickly solve very common sendmail configuration issues. Wherein the need for this book. Hunt takes a pragmatic approach. He tells you enough to handle these common issues. Sometimes, this comes at a slight cost. For example, he never really fully explains the the sendmail class notation. For a rigorous explanation, you still need Allman's book. But as a practical matter, you probably not that curious about the notation anyway. Hunt's approach may solve your problems quicker!
An interesting aspect of this Cookbook is that it shows the recent evolution of sendmail, as seen in the subtitle at the top of the cover, "Spam-Fighting". Sysadmins who dealt with sendmail from 5 years ago or earlier will recall nothing pertaining to antispam techniques.
But just as email was the first killer application, the second killer application was the browser, starting in 1992-3. The third killer application was spam, often viewed via the second application. In the last 5 years, spam has grown amazingly. So much so that it has been debated on the floors of the US Parliament! It has gotten to the point that some alarmists are even claiming that this third killer app might be crippling the first app!
Well, this Cookbook has several sections, including an entire chapter, focussed on various antispam techniques, like procmail parsing, or hooking up to Real Time Block Lists like spamhaus.org. The efficacy of such methods may vary widely, but you do get a choice. Though none of these currently appear to offer a truly effective countermeasure. You are still getting tons of spam, aren't you?
Perhaps some genius in the not too distant future can help us!
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Title: sendmail, 3rd Edition by Bryan Costales, Eric Allman ISBN: 1565928393 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Apache Cookbook by Rich Bowen, Ken Coar ISBN: 0596001916 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 14 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: DNS & BIND Cookbook by Cricket Liu ISBN: 0596004109 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: LDAP System Administration by Gerald Carter ISBN: 1565924916 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 20 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: sendmail Performance Tuning by Nick Christenson ISBN: 0321115708 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 12 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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