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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 has discussed two primary topics: monitoring qmail, primarily via its logs, and improving qmail's mail-handling speed. Unlike previous chapters, this chapter dealt more with maintaining the qmail architecture than extending it. This brings the narrative full-circle. As emphasized throughout this book, qmail is primarily an architecture for delivering mail. This book examined the qmail architecture from many angles, explaining its components, how to expand it, and finally how to maintain it. With this base of knowledge and approach to qmail, you are well on your way to being a highly effective administrator of a powerful mail transfer agent.

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