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| The Book of Postfix: State-of-the-Art Message Transport | 
| Authors: Ralf Hildebrandt, Patrick Koetter
Publisher: No Starch Press
Category: Book
List Price: $44.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (15 reviews)
Sales Rank: 169577
Format: Illustrated
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 496
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7 x 1.2
ISBN: 1593270011
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.713
UPC: 689145700114
EAN: 9781593270018
ASIN: 1593270011
Publication Date: March 25, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
 A No-nonse Postfix book May 25, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
These two did a great job on writing a Postfix book that is actuall y helpful. The authors spared us the standard first 4 chapters of junk and got straight to the point. Lots of tips for postfix with detailed explanations. If you run Postfix, get this book.
 Postfix at your fingertips February 24, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Postfix, State-of-the-Art Message Transport," fills at least some of the gaps one is confronted with when making a rather major transition from other MTAs like sendmail to postfix. While the initial installation and configuration of Postfix has generally been trivialized, there are indeed such a plethora of options (and rightly so, as many settings one established for sendmail are equally desirable in postfix) that searching via the Web for the right combinations of parameters to achieve a particular result can be very frustrating. This book does provide some solid, practical configuration examples and above all, some in-depth explanations of various security models (including TLS), LDAP-based authentication, and many other useful topics.
Some things, however, are glossed over and left to the tyro to figure out solo. All-important parameters such as smtpd_client_restrictions are glossed over. On the other hand, some parameters are covered in great detail, so overall, treatment of many of the hundreds of configuration parameters is uneven. Even though published in 2005, things are evolving rapidly enough in postfix that certain newer parameters, such as smtpd_junk_command_limit, are evidently not discussed here.
Still, this work represents a good example of what can be done to make life easier for the postfix administrator by collecting a lot of information in one tome and alleviating some of the frustration of long Web searches to hunt for answers to esoteric (and not so esoteric) postfix questions. I am overall quite pleased with this book and would recommend it to postfix administrators of all levels.
Put me on the right track February 17, 2006
I have been a system administrator for a few years now but I never had to deal with Email services on a low level before. So this was a great purchase for me. Not only was this book helpful in setting up the server it was a great help in making sure everything was secure and running its best. Plenty of example configurations and easy to read. Great for someone who knows linux but not allot about email services.
Great Book August 20, 2005
I'm a linux newbie trying to explore its powerful features and experimenting with open source technology. This book is a great help for me as a linux newbie in setting up a mail server. Howeer, just make sure you visit the website of this book because there are many corrections. I hope an improved version of the book will be released soon.
Excellent Book - With Errors June 29, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book, all in all, is a great book. It has great documentation, even a little bit on hard-to-find/obscure topics. I would have given this book a 5 star rating except for my two biggest problems with the book:
1) I suggest you review the books errata at http://www.postfix-book.com/errata.html there are some glaring mistakes made, and I wish they could have been fixed before the book went to printing. I understand that nothing is perfect, and that there are misprints and any number of errors that can occur, but this is a big problem in technical books.
2) While the book does offer examples, descriptions, and build notes about building Postfix, I think it is missing a larger troubleshooting chapter. I think the book needs to dive in further and talk about more configuration conflicts that can occur, and needs to talk the user through the troubleshooting steps, more clearly, and give a more consise error message that a user may get running Postfix.
After talking about my two biggest gripes about this book, I will finish by saying this is a very good book, and I do completely recommend buying this book if you plan on running Postfix.
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