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Sendmail Build and Administer Sendmail

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ISBN-10: 0596510292

ISBN-13: 9780596510299

Edition: 4th 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Bryan Costales, Claus Assmann, George Jansen, Gregory Neil Shapiro, Gregory Neil Shapiro

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A classic O'Reilly title since 1993, sendmail now covers Versions 8.10 through 8.14 of this email routing program, including dozens of new features, options, and macros. This edition also takes a more nuts-and-bolts approach than its predecessors. It includes both an administration handbook and a reference guide that provide you with clear options for installing, configuring and managing sendmail's latest versions and companion programs. The sendmail program has withstood the test of time because of its ability to solve the mail-routing needs of all sites large or small, complex or simple. But it's also difficult to configure and even more difficult to understand. That's why this book…    
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List price: $59.99
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/20/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1308
Size: 7.01" wide x 9.13" long x 2.23" tall
Weight: 3.850
Language: English

Bryan Costales is CTO with SL3D, Inc. in Boulder, Colorado. He has been active in system administration for over fifteen years and has been writing articles and books about computer software for over twenty years. His most notable books are C from A to Z (Prentice Hall), Unix Communications (Howard Sams), and, of course, sendmail (O'Reilly & Associates).

Claus Assmann is a member of the Sendmail Consortium and works for Sendmail, Inc. He is the maintainer of sendmail 8 and currently implements a new MTA (message transfer agent) named MeTA1. His main interests in computer technology are security and performance. He studied computer science at the University of Kiel in Germany, where he received his Ph.D. in 1992.

Gregory Shapiro began his professional career as a systems administrator for Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) after graduating from the university in 1992. During his tenure as Senior Unix Systems Administrator, he became involved with beta testing the BIND name server, the sendmail mail transfer agent, and other Unix utilities such as emacs and screen. His involvement with sendmail grew until he became Principal Engineer at Sendmail, Inc., where he continued to support the open source version while working on Sendmail's commercial products. He later moved into the IT team as the Senior Unix Network Systems Administrator. He is now Director, Strategic Technology at Sendmail, Inc. He is…    

Some Basics
Administration
Download, Build, and Install
Tune sendmail with Compile-Time Macros
Maintain Security with sendmail
Authentication and Encryption
The sendmail Command Line
How to Handle Spam
Test Rule Sets with -bt
DNS and sendmail
Build and Use Companion Programs
Manage the Queue
Maintain Aliases
Mailing Lists and �/.forward
Signals, Transactions, and Syslog
Debug sendmail with -d
Configuration Reference
Configuration File Overview
Configure sendmail.cf with m4
The R (Rules) Configuration Command
The S (Rule Sets) Configuration Command
The M (Mail Delivery Agent) Configuration Command
The D (Define a Macro) Configuration Command
The C and F (Class Macro) Configuration Commands
The K (Database-Map) Configuration Command
The O (Options) Configuration Command
The H (Headers) Configuration Command
The X (Milters) Configuration Command
Appendixes
The mc Configuration Macros and Directives
What's New Since Edition 3
The checkcompat() Function
Bibliography
Index