Book description
Virtually everything--not just computers, but every kind of device--is coming on board the Internet, and the two principal applications are the World Wide Web and email. The POP3 model for online-only messaging is being taxed to its limit, and users clearly would like mail servers with more "oomph." More specifically, the demand is for email servers that take advantage of centralized resources to manage mail, rather than heap more tasks on end-user computers. This clamor has resulted in the IMAP protocol being incorporated into virtually every major email server on the market. Those who haven't already installed IMAP are probably planning to do so. Managing IMAP is a movable feast of IMAP help. It is a handy guide for everyday tasks common to most IMAP servers as well as a concise reference to help navigate the sometimes sparsely and obtusely documented open source software. Whether the goal is more insight into the IMAP server and client or utility software, or big-picture strategic suggestions to get off a legacy system, Managing IMAP is here to help. This book is both a conceptual and a mechanical IMAP road map. Managers, system integrators, and system administrators on the front lines of Internet messaging will find it a valuable tool for IMAP system provision, maintenance and support. It is also useful if you're considering IMAP for your messaging system. Managing IMAP covers the IMAP protocol, setting up a client, IMAP security, performance monitoring, and tools. Several chapters are devoted specifically to two of the most popular servers: the University of Washington server and Cyrus, and detailed appendixes cover topics such as TCL, procmail, Sieve, and sendmail.
Table of contents
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Managing IMAP
- Foreword
- Preface
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I. IMAP Fundamentals
- 1. The Internet Mail Model
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2. What Is IMAP?
- IMAP in a Nutshell
- IMAPâs Three Interaction Models
- Why IMAP?
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IMAP and POP: A Comparison
- POP
- IMAP
- IMAP Culture Versus POP Culture
- Why Not Both POP and IMAP?
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Advantages of IMAP
- Appending to mailboxes
- Multiple mailbox support
- Remote mailbox management
- Support for local mailboxes
- Mailbox hierarchies
- Remote mailboxes on multiple servers
- Persistent mailbox status flags
- Server-initiated mailbox status updates
- Companion configuration protocols
- IMAP extensions
- Performance advantages
- IMAP supports non-email data
- Shared mailboxes
- Feature Breakdown
- Present and Future of IMAP
- Open Source Server Implementations
- IMAP-Related Standards and Documents
- 3. Anatomy of an IMAP Session
- II. IMAP Mail User Agents (MUAs)
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III. The Cyrus IMAP Server
- 6. Introduction to the Cyrus IMAP Server
- 7. Installing the Cyrus IMAP Server
- 8. Configuring the Cyrus Server
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9. Cyrus System Administration
- Cyrus System Administration with cyradm
- Common Tasks
- Batch Account Maintenance with cyradm
- Shared Folders and Bulletin Boards
- Mailstore Partitioning
- Quota Maintenance
- Disaster Recovery
- Migration from Berkeley (Unix) Mailbox Format to Cyrus
- Mail Forwarding and Filtering on a Black Box
- Usenet Integration
- Troubleshooting
- Adding SSL Support to Cyrus
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IV. The UW IMAP Server
- 10. Introduction to the UW IMAP Server
- 11. Installing UW IMAP
- 12. UW System Administration
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V. Other Topics
- 13. Addressing IMAP Security
- 14. Running a Dedicated Server
- 15. Server-Side Mail Filtering
- 16. Server Performance Tuning
- 17. Remote Configuration Storage
- 18. IMAP Tools
- VI. Appendixes
- Index
- Colophon
Product information
- Title: Managing IMAP
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2000
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596000127
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