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By Dianna Mullet, Kevin Mullet
First Edition
September 2000
Pages: 408
ISBN 10: 0-596-00012-X |
ISBN 13: 9780596000127
(Average of 5 Customer Reviews)
Whether you're a manager, system integrator, or system administrator on the front lines of Internet messaging, you'll find this a valuable tool for IMAP system provision, maintenance and support. Managing IMAP covers the IMAP protocol, setting up a client, IMAP security, performance monitoring, and tools. There are chapters devoted to two of the most popular servers, the University of Washington server and Cyrus; and detailed appendixes on topics such as TCL, procmail, Sieve, and sendmail.
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First Edition: September 2000
ISBN: 0-596-00012-X
Pages: 408
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 5 Reviews)
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When will the new edition be available!, July 01 2005
This is the best book that I've come across on IMAP, (in fact it is the only book currently available on the subject).
Pop3 in my very humble opinion is not an option for serious enterprise email. We use Cyrus-IMAP at our site and the book was useful in re-enforcing the choice of that particular application for us.
I commend both Dianna Mullet and Kevin Mullet on a work well done.
It is amazing how much work on revising Cyrus-Imap and updating Imap in general has been done, and this leads me to my call for an updated/new edition of the book to be done A.S.A.P. The present book does not tackle the important topic of virtual domains and the brief mention of LDAP not only needs updating, but maybe even an intire chapter. I also look forward to the inclusion of Courier-IMAP in the next book.
I only make these "requests" (ok, ok, demands), because I believe Dianna Mullet, Kevin Mullet and O'Reilly will not fail me ;-).
Most of my bookshelf comprises the O'Reilly book series and I look forward to adding the new edition to mmy bookshelf as soon as it is available.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!
Managing IMAP Review, July 21 2003
great book, should have read it before fidling out how to do it.
but the perl scripts, or more the required perl modules gave me some headache.
so i wrote a mbox2cyrus script in php 4.
http://scripts.serverspace.ch/content/linux_sysadmin/mbox2cyrus.phps
of course you need php with the imap ext. installed.
greets from switzerland
Managing IMAP Review, April 20 2003
Fantastic book! I'm a neophyte systems administrator who has begun to deal with IMAP.
Apart from being overwhelmed by the sheer complexity of it all, I'm always looking for a definitive, authoritative reference that makes for good bedtime reading (& office reading!).
Looking at the sample chapter has convinced me to purchase this book & I'll do so ASAP.
Plenty of examples & in-depth technical knowledge that us admins seek so earnestly.
O'Reilly has once done it again, with a well deserved highest rating.
Managing IMAP Review, December 21 2001
I wonder why it was so hard for me to find a book on IMAP! I had to have this special ordered when it should be on every email administrator's bookshelf.
I think it is about time someone wrote a book about this topic. Thanks for thoroughly mapping out what is out there for Open Source IMAP products and
how to implement either the Cyrus or UW Imap server.
Managing IMAP Review, December 04 2000
This is, almost literally, the book I've been wanting about IMAP for five years now. The authors have done a great job in covering all the bases, providing details for the free versions, and giving specifics that are useful without burying the reader under details. I found the quality of the technical information to be excellent, and the subjective evaluations (if I may say so subjectively) are commensurate with my rather extensive experience with the protocols and technology. They also did an excellent job in ferreting out some of the more obscure but useful companion technologies (e.g. ACAP/IMSP) and that in itself is a strong recommendation for this book.
We're recommending it to all our customers. It's a great starting place for those unfamiliar with IMAP architectures, and it's a useful reference even for those of us who've been involved in developing the very tools described.
Media reviews
"Any sysadmin thinking about offering imap as an email protocol should have this book as a reference. While it could use some updating, the book offers a well written starting point to understanding, setting up and administering an imap email server."
--Peter Stern, Interior Alaska Windows Networking Technology UG, February 2004
"If your companies needs are mobile, and users are reading email on everything from Web Browsers to cellular telephone, you're likely using IMAP, or at least considering it If this is the case, you should have O'Reilly's 'Managing IMAP' close at hand...a powerhouse of both conceptual and practical implementation procedures. Anyone working in the trenches of making a modern email system function for the next generation of mobile, pocket-PC-armed users needs this book. It's an invaluable resource for anyone faced with tasks as IMAP system provision, maintenance, administration, and performance tuning."
--Jeff W. Durham, UnixReview.com
"This particular O'Reilly book is extremely good for configuration problems and gives an informed explanation in a country which would seem to be an IMAP desert. After looking around the shelves of the local bookshops for six months I haven't been able to find another book about IMAP that even gives a simple clue about how to configure IMAP. Managing IMAP does all of that for me and a lot more. I think that I would recommend this O'Reilly volume to anyone who has to do anything with IMAP!"
--Richard Ibbotson, Sheffield Linux Users Group, February 2001
"This is an enlightening read; the authors clearly know their stuff and have presented a well-written and thoroughly digestible guide to the world of IMAP."
--Richard Drummond, Linux Format, January 2001
"Managing IMAP has done a great job of cataloguing and commenting upon the various IMAP administration utilities that exist.
--David Wall, Amazon delivers Networking, November 2000
"Until now I have been unable to find a single comprehensive source of information on installing, configuring and using IMAP. Like I said, until now. Managing IMAP provides that single source of information for systems programmers, implementers, and administrators. It is an excellent resource, providing an overview of the IMAP protocol, comparisons with POP, a review of freely available IMAP clients, and extensive coverage of both CMU's Cyrus IMAPD and Washington University's UW-IMAP. If you are looking at IMAP as a mail service, or if you are using Cyrus IMAP, I highly recommend this book. My copy is already becoming pretty dog-eared."
--Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, October 2000
