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sendmail

By Neil Rickert, Bryan Costales, Eric Allman
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Pages: 830
ISBN 10: 1-56592-056-2 | ISBN 13: 9781565920569

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Although sendmail is used on almost every UNIX system, it's one of the last great uncharted territories--and most difficult utilities to learn--in UNIX system administration. This book provides a complete sendmail tutorial, plus extensive reference material. It covers the BSD, UIUC IDA, and V8 versions of sendmail.
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This Nutshell Handbook(R) is far and away the most comprehensive book ever written on sendmail, the program that acts like a traffic cop in routing and delivering mail on UNIX-based networks. Although sendmail is used on almost every UNIX system, it's one of the last great uncharted territories--and most difficult utilities to learn-- in UNIX system administration. This book provides a complete sendmail tutorial, plus extensive reference material on every aspect of the program. What's more, it's authoritative, having been co-authored by Eric Allman, the developer of sendmail, and Neil Rickert, one of the leading sendmail gurus on the Net. This book covers both IDA sendmail and the latest version (V8) from the University of California, Berkeley. It also covers the standard versions available on most systems, such as those found on Sun and DEC/Ultrix workstations. The book is divided into four parts. Part One is a tutorial on understanding sendmail from the ground up; starting from an empty file, it has the reader work through exercises, building a configuration file and testing the results. Part Two covers practical issues in sendmail administration. Part Three is a comprehensive reference section, while Part Four consists of appendices and a bibliography.

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"This book must have set the size record for O'Reilly. It is industrial strength coverage for the workhorse agent of the Internet messaging world known as Sendmail. This is the province of system administrators, an invaluable handbook, and a nice companion to companion books TCP/IP Network Administration, DNS and Bind, and MH & xmh. The publisher appropriately enough chose a bat to adorn the bookcover -- for this spooky subject that requires an introductory section entitled 'why is sendmail so complex.' This book is not for your ordinary Internet end user -- but it's a godsend for the people who have to make internetwork messaging systems work -- done by the guys who helped write the code." --Book Review, ISOC News, November 1993

"O'Reilly & Associates had been promising a book on sendmail for so long, I was beginning to think that it would never come out. Just as I was ready to give up on it completely, Sendmail by Bryan Costales, Eric Allman and Neil Rickert, arrived. The book is well worth the wait.

"For years UNIX administrators have been searching frantically for any book that could explain sendmail in plain English, and that is precisely what this book does. It's one of those once-in-a-decade books, a brand-new classic.

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