Qmail Quickstarter: Install, Set Up and Run your own Email Server: A fast-paced and easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide that gets you up and running quickly (Paperback)

by Kyle Wheeler (Author)

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Product Description

A fast-paced and easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide that gets you up and running quickly

• Qmail Basics
• Storing and retrieving of emails
• Virtualisation
• Filtering Spam
• Hosting Multiple Domains, Encryption, and Mailing Lists

In Detail

This book starts with setting up a qmail server and takes you through virtualization, filtering, and other advanced features like hosting multiple domains, mailing lists, and SSL Encryption. Finally, it discusses the log files and how to make qmail work faster.

Qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It is designed for typical Internet-connected UNIX hosts. Qmail is the second most common SMTP server on the Internet, and has by far the fastest growth of any SMTP server. Qmail's straight-paper-path philosophy guarantees that a message, once accepted into the system, will never be lost. Qmail also optionally supports maildir, a new, super-reliable user mailbox format.

What you will learn from this book?

• Installing, configuring, and compiling qmail
• Getting emails in and out of the queue, along with storing, retrieving, and authenticating them
• Virtualisation of domains and user management, filtering spam, and other advanced features like SSL encryption and mailing lists

Approach

This book gives practical examples that system administrators can use right away, but it also explains the basics behind every example clearly.

Who this book is written for?

This book is targeted at System Administrators familiar with Linux/UNIX and DNS servers who need to set up qmail.

About the Author

Kyle Wheeler

Kyle Wheeler is a PhD candidate in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Having co-authored papers both nationally and internationally, he received an M.S.C.S.E. from Notre Dame in 2005 and expects to receive his doctorate in the field of scalable computing in 2008. As part of his PhD research, he interned at Sandia National Laboratories from 2006 through 2007. Kyle began setting up and maintaining qmail-based email servers working for NetSeats Inc. in 2000. Since then, his client base has expanded to include the Philadelphia chapter of Notre Dame Alumni, the Church of the Epiphany in the Archdiocese of Louisville, and several other groups, both large and small. He is also a frequent contributor to the qmail mailing list, which supports qmail users and administrators internationally.

Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 12, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1847191150
• ISBN-13: 978-1847191151
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #987,574 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)