Postfix : The Definitive Guide

Linux Email: Setup and Run a Small Office Email Server Using Postfix, Courier, Procmail, Squirrelmail, Clamav and Spamassassin

DNS and BIND, Fourth Edition

Unix

The Book of Postfix: State-of-the-Art Message Transport

Format: Paperback
Author: Ralf Hildebrandt
ReleaseDate: 25 March, 2005
Publisher: No Starch Press
Rating:

Excellent!
This certainly is one hell of a book!

I'm an Exim guy myself, and I swear by the magic that Exim lets me do with a piece of mail. I purchased and read The Book of Postfix because I'm always interested in learning something new. Ralf Hildebrandt and Patrick Koetter have certainly done a fabulous job with their book, and they have managed to make me consider using Postfix on my next project. They concisely, clearly and very beautifully bring forward how to use Postfix in real-world situations. Clear diagrams illustrate every concept, and the book is packed full of tips & real-world configurations, including exporting users from a Microsoft Exchange server to use in a Postfix gateway.

I think the book is worth its price in chapter fifteen alone: Understanding SMTP Authentication carries the only decent documentation about Cyrus SASL I've ever had the pleasure to read. An invaluable resource for any LDAP guy as well!

All in all, a most pleasurable experience.

This book has no equal.
I already had Postfix, the Definitive guide (which is a very good book). If you can only afford one book on Postfix, make it this one. However, this book will take you beyond simply getting Postfix up and running.

I was able to get Postfix working with Amavisd-new to integrate virus scanning and SpamAssassin. Previously I had tried to do that using only the package documentation and what I could find online; I gave it up because I just couldn't spend any more time. Getting virus and spam filtering working (for me) justified the cost of the book.

In addition, I have been able to implement LDAP and several security measures using this book. Chapter 19, A Company Mail Server is invaluable; it took a little study time for me, but now I have a mail server I could not have achieved with my experience level without this book.

For whatever it is worth, when I started this project I had dial in service and implemented Postfix using dial in; so if you are still doing dialup, you can make a working server. Now I have broadband and the transition was painless.

My only previous experience was with Sendmail and MS Exchange. Using this book, you can implement Postfix securely. I was also able to integrate Courier Maildrop using this book, which gives me the further advantage of being able to write custom filters and impose quotas on a per user basis.

Any reasonably savvy user/administrator can create a secure and dependable mail server using only this book as a reference.

Nuff said! 5 stars - Definitely Recommended .

A No-nonse Postfix book
The authors spared us the standard first 4 chapters of junk and got straight to the point. These two did a great job on writing a Postfix book that is actuall y helpful. Lots of tips for postfix with detailed explanations. If you run Postfix, get this book.