Sendmail

by Bryan Costales

Reliable, flexible, and configurable enough to solve the mail routing needs of any web site, sendmail has withstood the test of time, but has become no less daunting in its complexity. Even the most experienced system administrators have found it challenging to configure and difficult to understand. For help in unraveling its intricacies, sendmail administrators have turned unanimously to one reliable source--the bat book, or sendmail by Bryan Costales and the creator of sendmail, Eric Allman. Now in its third edition, this best-selling reference will help you master the most demanding version of sendmail yet.The new edition of sendmail has been completely revised to cover sendmail 8.12--a version with more features and fundamental changes than any previous version of the Unix-based email routing program. Because the latest version of sendmail differs so significantly from earlier versions, a massive rewrite of this best-selling reference was called for.The book begins by guiding you through the building and installation of sendmail and its companion programs, such as vacation and makemap. These additional programs are pivotal to sendmail's daily operation. Next, you'll cover the day-to-day administration of sendmail. This section includes two entirely new chapters, "Performance Tuning" to help you make mail delivery as efficient as possible, and "Handling Spam" to deal with sendmail's rich anti-spam features. The next section of the book tackles the sendmail configuration file and debugging. And finally, the book wraps up with five appendices that provide more detail about sendmail than you may ever need. Altogether, versions 8.10 through 8.12 include dozens of new features, options, and macros, and this greatly expanded edition thoroughly addresses each, and provides and advance look at sendmail version 8.13 (expected to be released in 2003).With sendmail, Third Edition in hand, you will be able to configure this challenging but necessary utility for whatever needs your system requires. This much anticipated revision is essential reading for sendmail administrators.

Genres: Reference, Technical, Computers, Technology, Programming, Nonfiction

3427 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Bryan Costales wrote the very successful "sendmail" (bat book) for O'Reilly Media. His most recent credits are short stories published in The Banyon Review, Romance Magazine, the Riptide Journal, and Gold Dust Magazine. Bryan lives in Eugene, Oregon where he dabbles in photography.

Reviews

[Lisa Penland · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you work with *nix - you need this book. Admining sendmail can be a dark art, and not for the feint of heart.

I've been known to ask intern candidates "what's the bat book?" - yeah, it's that important.

[Bryan Costales · Rating 5 out of 5]

I worked hard to make this the best and most perfect of the four editions.

[Thomas Beek · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a comprehensive book. Reading it will help you understand a lot of things better when it comes to the subject. It will make you a better IT professional/systems administrator.

[TK Keanini · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Bat Book

[RJ]

sendmail, 4th Edition by Bryan Costales (2007)