Publisher: O'Reilly, 1993, 792 pages
ISBN: 1-56592-056-2
Keywords: Programming, System Administration
This new Nutshell Handbook is far and away the most comprehensive book ever written on sendmail, a 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 newest version (V8) from the University of California, Berkeley. It also covers the standard version 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 gradually build up a configuration file, testing the results at each stage. The tutorial covers such topics as selecting mail delivery agents, macros, rules and rule sets, class macros, options, and headers.
Part Two deals, with practical topics sendmail administration, including how to compile and install sendmail from source, how to integrate sendmail and the Domain Naming System (DNS), security, queue management, aliases, mailing lists, and logging and statistics.
Part Three is a comprehensive reference section, including alphabetized references to all options, macros, debugging switches, and headers.
Part Four consists of appendices dealing with details such as queue file intervals, error messages, the "define" macros in the config.h file, a complete copy of the client.cf file developed in the tutorial, V8 and IDA configuration macros, and a bibliography.
The standard work on sendmail. Only for masochists.
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