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Linux Email

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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.

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.