An Introduction to Qmail

By Dave Sill

- Author wrote the popular online qmail guide "Life with qmail". - Designed for readers of all levels of experience. - Step-by-step guide to installing, configuring, and maintaining a qmail server.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1893115402
• ISBN13: 9781893115408
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Great starter book for anyone

Dave Sill did an excellent job of showing how to setup email server. If you know some Linux commands, you'll have no problem setup your first Linux email server. I personally prefer Dave's Qmail handbook to John Levine's Qmail (I got as well). Levine's Qmail is an great second book.Best Linux book I ever bought!

Need to setup qmail? Start here.

This book is exactly what it say it is, a qmail handbook.Using this book, I was able to setup qmail and get it running without a hitch. I loved the layout of the book. Basically Sill gets right down to the task of why you bought the book- installing qmail. You can read "ahead" on the chapters and then walk through or you can simply walk through the book following the chapters and install qmail. The Appendices at the end where great. I personally suggest reading through these BEFORE you start the 1st chapter, but that is my own prefference.The Appendices cover topics like "How qmail works", "qmail features", "Gotchas", etc. However, they are appendices so you can read them if you want to. Unlike the Sendmail bat book, where you have to wade through understanding internet mail and such, these are at the end in Sills book. It is a matter of prefference, but I would still recommend you read them (Especially the part on how qmail works!!!). If you are new to qmail, and need to setup a server without straining you eyes on a computer screen, this is the book you need. It covers using qmail as your imap/pop server, as a external mail relay (a must for keeping your internal Exchange server secure), mailing lists, anti-spam, webmail, and many more features. This is really the only book you need if you are running qmail.

The only book you need for qmail

Very simple, this is the only book you need for qmail. I've run qmail servers for several years, and I still found Dave's writing to be very interesting. It's the expanded version of Life with Qmail, the indispensible starting point for qmail administrator. Go buy it.

Good solid book. Everything you need to install and admin.

I had 2 days to get a proper Unix-style mail system up and running at work-- even though I had never done anything in Linux past clicking next-next-next in a Red Hat install. This book not only made it easy to install and administer qmail, it actually made me a fan of the qmail software. I've never worked with anything that made so much sense. I am a Windows programmer.

Excellent

This is an excellent, well-rounded book. Covers every imaginable aspect of qmail, and resolved my ongoing issues with spam and other crazy configuration issues I've been having. If you're looking for the best qmail resource available, this is it.