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Title: Postfix by Richard Blum ISBN: 0-672-32114-9 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (15 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Not for real mail admins
Comment: This book is too basic. It's real audience is people with little or no previous experience with mail servers.
I have long experience with Postfix and expected two things from this book:
a) Show me a holistic vision of Postfix to better understand how it works. Postfix docs are to terse and hard to integrate and interpretate. For example, while there is only one (main.cf) configuration file (with no subsections), there is no single doc that show all posible parameters and theirs meanings. Instead, each Postfix's component have their own documentation with their own parameter set explained. Postfix need very badly a table showing which parameters goes with which component, and this book doesn't provide one (and I expected one). The Postfix organization and operation is VERY logic after the fact, but it will be a lot easier if someone show you (and save you from making the same mistakes).
b) Explain how to do some real world tasks (for example, how to place differents recipient restrictions for inbound mail and for outbound mail).
This book adds nothing to Postfix's own docs; it's only a gentle introduction to the subject.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good book as introduction to an excellent program...
Comment: If you can't (or won't) run sendmail for whatever reason, then the alternative I would suggest is postfix. I believe that postfix still has some weaknesses relative to sendmail (and sendmail has recently strengthened its position with regards to certain issues), but it is still an excellent program.
Moreover, postfix is written by reknowned security/secure programming expert Wietse Venema, and he has gone to great lengths to prove that you can write programs that are both secure by default and designed to perform well, including under extreme load.
I've been proud of my involvement with postfix since 1997-1998 (back when it was still called VMailer), and the features that I have helped convince Wietse to implement. Unlike some program authors, Wietse has very little ego invested in his programs, and because of his naturally conservative method of programming, just about anything from him that he calls "beta" is probably better than so-called "production quality" code from most anyone else.
This book is a decent introduction to an excellent program, but unfortunately it is the only game in town at the moment. I'd like to see another book written on the subject, if only so that we could have a bit of competition.
Rating: 1
Summary: don't wast your time or money
Comment: After reading the reviews I thought I'd give this book a try. I had an immediate need to set up a postfix email server with virtual hosts that would check their email via POP3. I've learned nothing from this book that I couldn't have gotten from the online documentation and it is an insult to any Linux administrator. I'm still at the same point I was before getting this book. Same issues, no insights into how to fix it. It doesn't even cover setting up POP3 access for virtual hosts.
If you think this book will give you an easier read than the online documentaion, don't bother. I had the online documentation open and it follows it so closely that it seems the author was simply paraphrasing the documentation. The only areas that it goes into more detail are irrelevent issues, like setting up ISDN (isn't that out of the scope of this book?) and how to run strace!
Again, don't bother. I want my money back!
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Title: Postfix: The Definitive Guide by Kyle D. Dent ISBN: 0596002122 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Managing IMAP by Dianna Mullet, Kevin Mullet ISBN: 059600012X Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: DNS and BIND, Fourth Edition by Paul Albitz, Cricket Liu ISBN: 0596001584 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: The Book of Postfix by Ralf Hildebrandt, Patrick Koetter ISBN: 1593270011 Publisher: No Starch Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Procmail Companion by Martin McCarthy ISBN: 0201737906 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $36.99 |
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