Publisher: O'Reilly Media Released: March 2004 Pages: 252
qmail has quietly become one of the most widely used applications on the Internet today. It's powerful enough to handle mail for systems with millions of users--Like Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail, while remaining compact and manageable enough for the smallest Unix- and Linux-based PC systems. Its component design makes it easy to extend and customize while keeping its key functions secure, so it's no wonder that adoption of qmail continues at a rapid pace. The downside? Apparently none. Except that qmail's unique design can be disorienting to those familiar with other popular MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents). If you're coming from sendmail, for instance, you might have trouble recasting your problems and solutions in qmail terms. qmail first helps you establish a "qmail frame of mind," then explores the installation, configuration, administration, and extension of this powerful MTA. Whether you're installing from scratch or managing mailing lists with thousands of users, qmail provides detailed information about how to make qmail do precisely what you want qmail concentrates on common tasks like moving a sendmail setup to qmail, or setting up a "POP toaster," a system that provides mail service to a large number of users on other computers sending and retrieving mail remotely. The book also fills crucial gaps in existing documentation, detailing exactly what the core qmail software does. Topics covered include: - Installation and configuration, including patching qmail
- Moving from sendmail to qmail
- Handling locally and remotely originated messages
- Managing virtual domains
- Logging qmail activity
- Tuning qmail performance
- Running multiple copies of qmail on the same computer
- Mailing list setup and management
- Integrating the qmail MTA with POP and IMAP delivery
- Filtering out spam and viruses
If you need to manage mailing lists, large volumes of mail, or simply find sendmail and other MTAs too complicated, qmail may be exactly what's called for. Our new guide, qmail, will provide the guidance you need to build an email infrastructure that performs well, makes sense, and is easy to maintain. |
- Title:
- qmail
- By:
- John Levine
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media
- Formats:
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- Print
- Ebook
- Safari Books Online
- Print:
- March 2004
- Ebook:
- February 2009
- Pages:
- 252
- Print ISBN:
- 978-1-56592-628-8
- | ISBN 10:
- 1-56592-628-5
- Ebook ISBN:
- 978-0-596-10380-4
- | ISBN 10:
- 0-596-10380-8
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John Levine John R. Levine writes, lectures, and consults on Unix and compiler topics. He moderates the online comp.compilers discussion group at Usenet. He worked on Unix versions Lotus 1-2-3 and the Norton Utilities and was one of the architects of AIX for the IBM RT PC. He received a Ph.D in computer science from Yale in 1984. View John Levine's full profile page. |
Colophon Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal on the cover of qmail is a tawny owl. Generally, it's dark brown and streaked with black and buff, but occasionally, it is grey. The tawny owl is the most common owl in Britain, and its distribution extends from Europe to North Africa and eastward to Iran and western Siberia. It is also found in India, southern China, Korea, and Taiwan. The tawny owl does not built its own nest, rather it nests in natural holes and in the abandoned nests of crows, magpies, and even the nests of buzzards. It remains within its nesting territory all year round and pairbonds last for life. The female tawny owl will stay with her nestlings while the male gathers food. While the male hunts for rabbits, moles, mice, shrews, and other rodents, the female defends her territory passionately with threatening behavior and erratic flying. Occasionally, a human is attacked; in Britain, at least two people are known to have lost an eye, including Eric Hosking, the famous bird photographer. The tawny owl is best known for its distinctive song. The normal song of the male owl announces territory, courtship, and food. The song begins with a drawn out hooo and then is followed by a pause before the male owl abruptly sings out ha, followed immediately by huhuhuhooo. Occasionally, the female tawny owl makes a similar hooting sound in response to the male's call. However, unlike the clear, resonant sound of the male song, the female's song possesses a wailing quality of wowowhooo. The duet that is performed between the two has led to a myriad of names for the tawny owl, including Billy hooter and Jenny howlet. Sarah Sherman was the production editor and the copyeditor for qmail. Genevieve d'Entremont was the proofreader. Reg Aubry and Mary Anne Weeks Mayo provided quality control. Tom Dinse wrote the index. Emma Colby designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font. David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted by Joe Wizda to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. This colophon was written by Sarah Sherman. |
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