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Sendmail: Theory and Practice
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Author: Paul Vixie, Frederick M Avolio
List Price: $44.99
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ISBN: 155558229X
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann (21 December, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 132,086
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
2nd edition sorely needed
The first edition of this book was an excellent general introduction, but did not cover much in the way of more modern sendmail features (such as using m4 to "compile" sendmail.cf files from the sendmail.mc "source"). Because of the longer lead time in the publishing of that book, some parts were already outdated before it was published.This updated edition addresses many of these shortcomings, while still being an excellent high-level introductory text.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Not an introduction.
I disagree that this book is a good introduction to sendmail. It does not cover the basic options well, and very quickly goes off the deep end of the sendmail.cf file. It is probably a very good introduction to the advanced sendmail.cf programming that most people will never need to do.It barely mentions how to create sendmail.cf using the m4 macro processor. It doesn't cover virtual hosting well, but spends pages and pages on uucp and decnet mail. And ,it is unix-centric to the point of assuming that all users will be on unix boxes with their own properly configured hostname and sendmail, rather than on DHCPed PCs down the hall (which seems to be the current situation). All in all, this book told me little of nothing about the sendmail tasks I have to accomplish and way too much about stuff I should never have to touch.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Best introduction to "sendmail" that is available...
This book is an excellent introduction to the program "sendmail", co-authored by Paul Vixie who wrote what was known as "King James Sendmail", which was based on the original code from Eric Allman plus all the available patches he could find.This book isn't a great reference to have on the shelf, but you cannot find a better introductory text. This is an excellent book to give to your boss, if they demand to understand more about what you do in terms of managing the mail servers, etc.... However, if you're going to be doing this job on a daily basis, then you also need the book _sendmail_ by Bryan Costales, published by O'Reilly & Assoc. Costales is an absolutely unbeatable reference book on sendmail, but isn't as good as an introductory text, if only due to its exhaustive completeness (over a thousand pages).
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