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Qmail Quickstarter: Install, Set Up and Run your own Email Server

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Qmail Quickstarter: Install, Set Up and Run your own Email Server

Overview of this book

This book starts with setting up a qmail server and takes you through virtualization, filtering, and other advanced features like hosting multiple domains, mailing lists, and SSL Encryption. Finally, it discusses the log files and how to make qmail work faster. Qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It is designed for typical Internet-connected UNIX hosts. Qmail is the second most common SMTP server on the Internet, and has by far the fastest growth of any SMTP server. Qmail's straight-paper-path philosophy guarantees that a message, once accepted into the system, will never be lost. Qmail also optionally supports maildir, a new, super-reliable user mailbox format.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

About the Reviewer

Russell Nelson has been a postmaster for twenty years, about half of them using qmail. In a previous life, he was Mr. Packet Driver, but people still remember him that way. Russell blogs at http://blog.russnelson.com/.