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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)

Summary


This chapter covered the general topic of expanding the qmail architecture, with particular focus on the details of spam and virus prevention. Many different techniques for addressing the many facets of spam and viruses in today's world were discussed. Armed with this knowledge, a system administrator can harden an email system against spam in ways that are effective, efficient, and appropriate for a system's particular needs, limitations, and available resources. The next chapter covers more advanced topics—SSL support and mailing list support—that rely in different ways upon the understanding of the architecture