Linux Network Servers (Craig Hunt Linux Library)

sendmail Cookbook

Linux System Administration, Second Edition (Craig Hunt Linux Library)

Networking And System Administration

Linux Sendmail Administration (Craig Hunt Linux Library)

Format: Paperback
Author: Craig Hunt
ReleaseDate: 15 February, 2001
Publisher: Sybex
Rating:

Just what I needed...
Much of the internet material are hacks by admins professing to know something, but get you into more trouble. I have been frantically searching for a sendmail book that would just get me through the fundamentals. I checked out the bat book (O'Reilly) and get cross-eyed going through that tomb, which seems to be more of a reference than a practical guide.

This book finally hit the jackpot. It has excellent explanations. The explanations for basic SMTP, IMAP, POP are very short and sweet, and excellent to get everyone on the same page, before delving into sendmail. The sendmail section is great, and really explained how the get the basic system going and the problems with sendmail for initial setup. Before this book, I was confused by the whole directory structure and m4 system, and this book walked me through it. That alone made this book was so invaluable. Thank you.

This book is oriented strictly to Linux. I have to administrater Solaris, so Linux is not in my scope now, but given that Unices are similar that is not a problem.

I find that overall this book to be quite practical, and doesn't have needless explanations, just exactly what you need to get a feel and handle on sendmail.

I'm sure there are undoubtedly rants here from sendmail hackers that profess to be gurus, which I am sure will neg my review. This review is not for them, but rather for the normal folks that have a life and are eager to learn, but yet need to administer sendmail as well (especially where time to implement this stuff is critical).

Linux Sendmail Administration
Sendmail is large complex program and can be very daunting. Having read another popular sendmail book, made me wonder if I should try again.

Craig Hunt's Linux Sendmail Administration turned out to be quite refreshing. I'm no longer satisfied with just setting up the basic sendmail configuration. His easy to understand, easy to follow style had me tinkering at each step along the way. I was looking for a simple how-to guide to get my home office sendmail up and running. Instead I got much more - a very thorough understanding of how and why sendmail works the way it does.

Craig has a knack for reducing complex concepts into easily understandable lessons. Doing so, the subject matter is covered in depth, not watered down. Even difficult tasks like the m4 macro processor and rewriting rules are introduced in a straight forward useful manner.

An excellent book, I can't wait for my next installment from the Craig Hunt Linux series!.

Good Book- Worth the Money
I liked the background information alot and the author clearly seperates items that are of general interest, specific interest and advanced interest. This reference does a good job detailing a difficult topic "Sendmail". This book helped me convert a 300 user system from mmdf to sendmail in a weekend. The only recommendation for this book and other Sendmail books I have is a better chapter/explainations on how to stop spam, check your system for spam etc. I had to go online for better spam blocking tricks.

--Matt Lewis.