What s Inside?

What's Inside?

This book is organized into two sections, consisting of the following chapters.

Part I: Introduction to Qmail

Chapter 1, provides an overview of Internet email and the terminology used to describe it.

Chapter 2, outlines how qmail works, and gives a description of its basic parts and the philosophy behind its design and use.

Chapter 3, covers the basics of downloading, configuring and installing qmail, and other essential packages.

Chapter 4, finishes the job of configuring and starting qmail.

Chapter 5, addresses issues encountered when converting an existing sendmail system and its configuration files to qmail.

Chapter 6, looks at the issues involved in accepting mail from users on the qmail host and other systems, including cleaning up the sloppily formatted mail that most user mail programs send.

Chapter 7, describes the processing of incoming mail, various tricks to let users identify themselves as local users when roaming away from the local network, and adding cryptographic security to mail transfers.

Chapter 8, covers sorting, reading, and otherwise dealing with local mailboxes.

Chapter 9, covers anti-virus and anti-spam techniques, both those that can be built into qmail and ways to call external filters like Spamassassin.

Part II: Advanced Qmail

Chapter 10, defines the way that qmail delivers mail to local addresses.

Chapter 11, defines the way that qmail delivers mail to remote addresses.

Chapter 12, describes qmail's simple but powerful abilities to handle domains with their own sets of addresses, including building mail gateways to other services, and special routing for selected mail destinations.

Chapter 13, covers POP and IMAP, the standard ways that users pick up mail from PC mail programs, as well as "POP toasters," dedicated POP servers with many mailboxes.

Chapter 14, details qmail's built-in mailing list features, the companion ezmlm mailing list manager, and offers some advice on connecting qmail to other mailing list managers such as mailman and majordomo.

Chapter 15, describes qmail's built-in database of local mail addresses and subaddresses.

Chapter 16, describes log analysis tools and offers rules of thumb for tuning qmail for best performance.

Chapter 17, covers applications with multiple copies of qmail on one computer, copies of qmail cooperating on many computers, and the mini-qmail package to run a mail hub serving many small client systems.

Chapter 18, shows many problems and solves them.



qmail
qmail
ISBN: 1565926285
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 152

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