Linux Email [Paperback]

Alistair McDonald (Author), Ian Haycox (Author), Magnus Bäck (Author), Carl Taylor (Author), David Rusenko (Author), Patrick Ben Koetter (Author), Ralf Hilderbrandt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 11, 2009

The book takes a practical, step-by-step approach to working with email servers. It starts by establishing the basics and setting up a mail server. Then you move to advanced sections like webmail access, security, backup, and more. You will find many examples and clear explanations that will facilitate learning. This book is aimed at technically confident users and new and part-time system administrators in small businesses, who want to set up a Linux-based email server without spending a lot of time becoming expert in the individual applications. Basic knowledge of Linux is expected.

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About the Author

Alistair McDonald

Alistair McDonald is a software developer and IT consultant. He has worked as a freelancer in the UK for 15 years, developing cross-platform software systems in C, C++, Perl, Java, and SQL. He has been using open source software for over 20 years and implementing systems using it for the past 10 years.

Last year, he gave up his freelance career and joined JDA Software, working in a technical role in their Service Industries division.

Alistair is also the author of the book SpamAssassin: A practical guide to integration and configuration, published by Packt .

Carl Taylor

Carl Taylor has worked over 20 years in the IT industry and has spent the majority of that time working on Unix type systems, mainly communications or office automation projects. He was an early user of the UseNet network and taught himself to programme in C through working on a variety of open source software. His experience covers roles including pre and post sales support, product development, end user training and management.

Carl now runs his own Web Solutions development company 'Adepteo' where they specialise in intranet and workflow products building on the best open source applications available. Whilst not working or looking after his children Carl is something of a dance addict and is currently learning Latin and Ballroom and Salsa.

David Rusenko

David Rusenko was born in Paris, France, and spent most of his childhood overseas. He began working as a freelance web designer in 1996 and had his first experience with open source, a box copy of RedHat 5.2, shortly after in 1999. After six years and as many versions of RedHat, he now creates appealing web pages and devises solutions implementing high availability through clustering and alternate security models.

He founded Aderes in 2001, a company which provides email and web-based security solutions. His search for an appropriate Webmail platform for the company led him to Squirrelmail. Initially managing all aspects of the business, from the technical concerns to customer support, gave him the experience he now contributes to the Webmail chapter of this book.

David has studied both Information Sciences and Technology (IST) and Management Information Systems (MIS) at the Pennsylvania State University. He speaks English and French fluently, and is conversational in Arabic. During his free time and vacations, he enjoys scuba diving, backpacking, playing racquetball and playing electronic music records.

Ian Haycox

Ian Haycox is a freelance IT consultant based in France and actively contributes to open source projects. He has twenty-five years of software development experience in the enterprise integration, telecommunications, banking, and television sectors.

Ian has a degree in Computer Science from the University of Hertfordshire, UK, and now runs his own web design company and Linux programming consultancy.

Magnus Back

Magnus Back has been playing and working with computers since he was a kid, and within the computer field he is interested in everything from digital typography and compilers to relational databases and Unix. His interests also include e-mail services, and he is an active contributor to the Postfix mailinglist.

Magnus holds a master's degree in computer science and engineering from Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden, and currently works with software configuration management and tools development for GSM/UMTS phones at Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications.

Patrick Ben Koetter

Patrick Ben Koetter is an active and well-known figure in the Postfix community, working as information architect. Patrick Koetter runs his own company consulting and developing corporate communication for customers in Europe and Africa.

He speaks about Postfix at industry conferences and hacker conventions and contributes regularly to a number of open source mailing lists. Patrick Koetter is Co-author of 'The Book of Postfix'.

Ralf Hildebrandt

Ralf Hildebrandt is an active and well-known figure in the Postfix community, working as a systems engineer for T-Systems, a German telecommunications company.

He speaks about Postfix at industry conferences and hacker conventions and contributes regularly to a number of open source mailing lists. Ralf Hildebrandt is Co-author of 'The Book of Postfix'.

Product Details

• Paperback: 376 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing; 2nd edition edition (November 11, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1847198643
• ISBN-13: 978-1847198648
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,748,891 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Let Down, August 2, 2010

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Andrei Mouravski - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Linux Email (Paperback)

Another title from my favorite publisher Packt; however, this book let
me down. It is advertised as a practical guide to setting up a Linux
e-mail server. Although it does excel at advanced e-mail server
configurations, especially those regarding spamassasin, squirrelmail
and general e-mail security, this book seems to skim over the the
basic yet essential steps. You will probably need to read some
internet tutorials to master the basics of an e-mail before tackling
this title. Despite its short comings this is still the best single
resource that I have found for advanced e-mail configurations.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lacks virtual mailbox domain coverage, March 23, 2011

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Jason C. Miller (Erwin, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Linux Email (Paperback)

Though this is a great book, I did have certain expectations that it hasn't fulfilled. Oddly enough it went straight into stopping spam right after I got the server setup, instead of focusing on how to create accounts for domains. I continued however and it seemed to start covering what I was looking for with virtual alias domains, which map domain email addresses to local UNIX user accounts (or remote addresses). I just realized however that it doesn't cover configuration for virtual mailbox domains...which is essential if you're providing email accounts to people without providing UNIX system user accounts for those people. I expected this to be so common that it would be covered by this book, but it seems to not be.

The book does seem to provide enough coverage to help with everything else though. I hope I can integrate it with what I read online about virtual mailboxes for hosted domains.