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sendmail 8.13 Companion

The sendmail Administrator's Reference

By
Bryan Costales, George Jansen, Claus Assmann, Gregory Neil Shapiro
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Released:
September 2004
Pages:
192
Description
An excellent companion to our popular sendmail, Third Edition, this book documents the improvements in V8.13 in parallel with its release. Highlighting the important changes V8.13, the book points out not just what is handy or nice to have, but what's critical in getting the best behavior from sendmail. For a simple dot release ,V8.13 sendmail has added more features, options, and fundamental changes than any other single dot release yet. The key to understanding them is the sendmail 8.13 Companion.
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Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Release Notes

    1. Parts of RELEASE_NOTES

    2. A Useful Program

  2. Chapter 2 Build and Install sendmail

    1. What's New As of V8.13

    2. Useful Tables

  3. Chapter 3 Tune sendmail with Compile-Time Macros

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. A Useful Table

  4. Chapter 4 Configure sendmail.cf with m4

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. A Useful Table

  5. Chapter 5 Companion Programs

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. Useful Tables

  6. Chapter 6 Tune Performance

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. Useful Tables

  7. Chapter 7 Handle Spam and Filter with Milter

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. Useful Tables

  8. Chapter 8 Test Rule Sets with -bt

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. A Useful Table

  9. Chapter 9 DNS and sendmail

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. Useful Tables

  10. Chapter 10 Maintain Security with sendmail

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. A Useful Table

  11. Chapter 11 Manage the Queue

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. Useful Tables

  12. Chapter 12 Maintain Aliases

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. Useful Tables

  13. Chapter 13 Mailing Lists and ~/.forward

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. Useful Tables

  14. Chapter 14 Signals, Transactions, and Syslog

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. A Useful Table

  15. Chapter 15 The sendmail Command Line

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. Useful Tables

  16. Chapter 16 Debug sendmail with -d

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. Useful Tables

  17. Chapter 17 Configuration File Overview

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. Useful Tables

  18. Chapter 18 The R (Rules) Configuration Command

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. Useful Tables

  19. Chapter 19 The S (Rule Sets) Configuration Command

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. A Useful Table

  20. Chapter 20 The M (Mail Delivery Agent) Configuration Command

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. Useful Tables

  21. Chapter 21 The D (Define a Macro) Configuration Command

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. A Useful Table

  22. Chapter 22 The C and F (Class Macro) Configuration Commands

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. Useful Tables

  23. Chapter 23 The K (Database-Map) Configuration Command

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. Useful Tables

  24. Chapter 24 The O (Options) Configuration Command

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. Useful Tables

  25. Chapter 25 The H (Headers) Configuration Command

    1. What's New with V8.13

    2. Useful Tables

  1. Colophon

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Product Details
Title:
sendmail 8.13 Companion
By:
Bryan Costales, George Jansen, Claus Assmann, Gregory Neil Shapiro
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Formats:
  • Print
  • Safari Books Online
Print Release:
September 2004
Pages:
192
Print ISBN:
978-0-596-00845-1
| ISBN 10:
0-596-00845-7
Customer Reviews
About the Authors

  1. Bryan Costales

    Bryan Costales is CTO with SL3D, Inc. in Boulder, Colorado. He has been active in system administration for over fifteen years and has been writing articles and books about computer software for over twenty years. His most notable books are C from A to Z (Prentice Hall), Unix Communications (Howard Sams), and, of course, sendmail (O'Reilly & Associates).

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  2. George Jansen

    George Jansen is a freelance writer who has worked with Bryan Costales on several of Bryan's books. His first novel, The Jesse James Scrapbook, is published by Hilliard & Harris. His second, The Fade-away, is published by Pocol Press. He lives in the Bay Area, drives a brand new Toyota Yaris, and enjoys baseball, classic jazz, and taking long naps.

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  3. Claus Assmann

    Claus Assmann is a member of the Sendmail Consortium and works for Sendmail, Inc. He is the maintainer of sendmail 8 and currently implements a new MTA (message transfer agent) named MeTA1. His main interests in computer technology are security and performance. He studied computer science at the University of Kiel in Germany, where he received his Ph.D. in 1992.

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  4. Gregory Neil Shapiro

    Gregory Shapiro began his professional career as a systems administrator for Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) after graduating from the university in 1992. During his tenure as Senior Unix Systems Administrator, he became involved with beta testing the BIND name server, the sendmail mail transfer agent, and other Unix utilities such as emacs and screen. His involvement with sendmail grew until he became Principal Engineer at Sendmail, Inc., where he continued to support the open source version while working on Sendmail's commercial products. He later moved into the IT team as the Senior Unix Network Systems Administrator. He is now Director, Strategic Technology at Sendmail, Inc. He is also a FreeBSD committer and has served as program committee member for BSDCon 2002 and program chair for BSDCon 2003. Greg lives in California and enjoys reading science fiction and fantasy books, traveling, and seeing movies and theater productions.

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Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal on the cover of sendmail 8.13 Companion is a leaf-nosed bat, also known as the "New World" or "California" leaf-nosed bat. These bats are native to North America (Southern California, Arizona, and Nevada), Central America, and South America, as well as to parts of the Caribbean. They are so named because of a distinctive, "leaf-shaped" triangle that projects upward from their noses.

The leaf-nosed bat is nocturnal, rising late in the evening. It leaves its home to search for food, returns home after eating, then goes out again in the very early morning hours to repeat the cycle. It feeds on such things as insects, fruit, pollen, frogs, and spiders. This particular type of bat does not hibernate in the winter, nor does it migrate. It tends to become a bit more lethargic in cold weather, however. It prefers dry, desert climates, choosing to live mostly in caves and old abandoned mines. It lives in one of two social settings: either one male and many females, or all males who seek out females only in mating season, which occurs in early fall. Mary Brady was the production editor and copyeditor for sendmail 8.13 Companion. Sarah Sherman was the proofreader. Jamie Peppard and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Johnna Van Hoose Dinse wrote the index. Mary Agner provided production support.

Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Clay Fernald produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.

David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted by Julie Hawks to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. This colophon was written by Mary Brady.

  • Book cover of sendmail 8.13 Companion
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