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| Label: | O'Reilly |
| UPC: | 636920922223 |
| Pages: | 1044 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 1997-01-15 |
| Published By: | O'Reilly |
| ASIN: | 1565922220 |
| Category: | Book |
This book provides a complete sendmail tutorial, plus extensive reference material on every aspect of the program. What's more, it's authoritative, having been coauthored by Eric Allman, the developer of sendmail. In addition to Version 8.8, it covers earlier versions available on many systems, such as those found on Sun workstations. Part One is a tutorial on understanding sendmail; Part Two covers the building, installation, and m4 configuration of sendmail; Part Three covers practical issues in sendmail administration; Part Four is a comprehensive reference section; and Part Five consists of appendixes and a bibliography.
In this second edition an expanded tutorial demonstrates hub's cf file and nullclient.mc. Other topics include the #error delivery agent, sendmail's exit values, MIME headers, and how to set up and use the user database, mailertable, and smrsh. Solution-oriented examples throughout the book help you solve your own sendmail problems. Plus, this edition is cross-referenced with section numbers.
If you want or have to work with sendmail the ubiquitous SMTP server written by Eric Allman et. al. then this is the book for you. I have been an Unix system administrator for 15+ years and I still run to this book when I have to do anything fancy with sendmail.
Every system administrator worth their salt has to munge the sendmail.cf file at least once in their career. This book will at least point you in the right direction.
* Very Clear, Consice and easy to understand.
* Examples are good and to the point.
* Explains setup, running and Admin in depth.
Ok! Face it, if you are into sendmail and want a good reference, do you have any other choice ??
Luckily, Allman and Costales have done a wonderful job in creating this book.
Santy
I bought this book thinking it would help a relatively unexperienced administrator figure out how to work with sendmail. Unfortunately this book does not give the type guidance that I need. There is basically no "how to" section. I was able to find one of the problems I am having stated in the book, with absolutely no resolution to it listed. This book was a waste of my companys money.
Big problems here are that the book isn't tremendously helpful for learning - more of a reference, and that it is at least four years out of date, which is a long time considering what's happened with the Internet since then....
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