This book will offer broad coverage to instruct both the large ISP and the small business network administrator on how to install and configure a full featured Internet email system with a minimum amount of expense. This is possible using the Linux Operating System which supplies all of the necessary server software, the Postfix email software package, and Public Domain client email software on the client PC's. This book also includes educational information that can be used by network administrators in using Postfix to connect an office email server to an ISP. The Postfix email software package is in widely used on the Internet without any books documenting how to install, configure, and operate the email server. This book will provide all the information needed to run Postfix effectively and efficiently.

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Not for real mail admins - 2003-04-05
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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.

don't wast your time or money - 2003-11-09
Reviewer Rating:
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!

Not Recommened; Too broad and general - 2003-09-15
Reviewer Rating:
Kind of regret getting this book.

I was hoping to see more of Postfix then described in this book. Like for example what's "empty_address_recipient" do and what parameter can it take and so on. Or how to work content_filter with other filter scripts so I can implement any spam and virus filter and so on. It doesnt even talk about it!

The book only gave an introductory broadview, but that's about it. It's probably ok if that's all you need.

A disappointment - 2003-05-13
Reviewer Rating:
5 chapters and 124pages of introduction to DNS, SMTP, and assorted blah. The author does an ok job of walking through the Postfix internals - 30+ pages just on postfix lookup tables. The book really disappointed in describing Postfix server operations. In fact, there appear to be a few errors. Following the book verbatim led to a BROKEN postfix server. Fortunately, Google knows all.

This is a great book - 2003-11-06
Reviewer Rating:
Richard Blum writes great books, open source email security and another book I forget, something about network traffic analysis. this is a great book for those sendmail folks fedup with config files :)

Feel free to contact me anytime about my other comments I have or info about Postfix itself. I'm a self made user and run my own anti-spam server using postfix/amavis/razor and spam assassin.

dolly@mxdemo.borderware.com

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