- Paperback: 80 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (Mar 27 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1565922786
- ISBN-13: 978-1565922785
- Product Dimensions: 17.9 x 10.5 x 0.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 100 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #435,134 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
This quick-reference guide to the sendmail program provides a complete overview of sendmail, from command-line switches to configuration commands, from options declarations to macro definitions, and from m4 features to debugging switches -- all packed into a convenient, carry-around booklet.
sendmail is the program that acts like a traffic cop in routing and delivering mail on UNIX-based networks -- it is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), accepting mail from Mail User Agents (MUAs), mail users (humans), and other MTAs. Then, it delivers that mail to Mail Delivery Agents (MDAs) on the local machine, or transports that mail to another MTA on another machine. 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.
Designed as a companion volume to sendmail, 2nd Edition, this guide covers the latest version (V8.8) from the University of California, Berkeley, and has extensive cross-references to sections in the main volume. Both books are coauthored by Eric Allman, the creator of sendmail.
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This quick-reference guide provides a complete overview of the latest version of sendmail (V8.8), from command-line switches to configuration commands, from options declarations to macro definitions, and from m4 features to debugging switches -- all packed into a convenient carry-around booklet coauthored by the creator of sendmail. Includes extensive cross-references to sendmail, 2nd Edition.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Very Outdated Book,
By A Customer
This review is from: sendmail Desktop Reference (Paperback)
This book is written for version 8.8 of sendmail. Sendmail went through some major changes with version 8.9 and these are not covered in this book. Also, the current version of Sendmail is 8.12.X.Maybe the O'Reilly people should consider an update!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Important quick reference...,
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This review is from: sendmail Desktop Reference (Paperback)
This is the quick reference guide to the larger tome _sendmail_ by Bryan Costales, et al. If you are an experienced Internet mail system administrator, you may be able to largely get by with using just this book, since it highlights the parts of the larger book that you would be most likely to use on a regular basis. However, if you need to go into any detail, of course you would also need the bigger book.I have multiple copies of this book, and try to always have at least one copy that I carry around with me most anywhere -- you never know when you might run into a problem or be asked a related question to which you do not remember the answer off-the-top of your head, but which would be answered very quickly by thumbing through the quick reference. I also have multiple copies of the bigger book, one at home, one at work, etc..., but you really don't want to carry such a monster volume around with you everywhere. However, you can do just that with this quick reference. The most knowledgeable and experienced system administrators don't pretend to try to remember everything. What we do know is where to find the answers, and how to find them quickly. This is why we have whole bookshelves full of O'Reilly books like this. Even Eric Allman and Bryan Costales don't remember every little detail about sendmail (the program) or about the various books, which is why they also keep multiple copies of these sorts of things.
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3.5 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews) 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
V8.10 is out now,
By Charles Oriez - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: sendmail Desktop Reference (Paperback)
Major changes in v8.10, including a much easier interface to the various RBL's. It is a good book, but time for an update. If you still have v8.9.3 in your shop, you can admin with this book though.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Very Outdated Book,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: sendmail Desktop Reference (Paperback)
This book is written for version 8.8 of sendmail. Sendmail went through some major changes with version 8.9 and these are not covered in this book. Also, the current version of Sendmail is 8.12.X.Maybe the O'Reilly people should consider an update! 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Reads like a technical manual - what's the point?,
By J. Thomas Dyess - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: sendmail Desktop Reference (Paperback)
I wasn't very happy with this book. It reads like a technical manual. Not very intuitive and is probably useful if you are already compitent with sendmail. If you are already compitent, what's the point? Was difficult to find even the simplest details on how to do something. Impossible to read cover to cover. Like reading an encrypted phone book.
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