Thanks everyone,

I was so close to B&N today, I just went ahead and picked up a copy. I also
stumbled across Ted Mittlestaedt's FreeBSD book. At first glance, it
appears to be very well written. He included a section on email.

I think that I need a Postfix specific book. But, I'll keep my eye out for
that other book.

Thanks,
Darren

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cliff Sarginson" <cliffraggedclown.net>
To: <postfix-userspostfix.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: Postfix book

> On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:11:52PM +0000, Hamish Marson wrote:
> > Darren wrote:
> >
> > > I thought that I'd pick up a book on Postfix. Could I get some
> > > recommendations? I may not have much to pick from. The only one that
I
> > > could find online was Richard Blum's %Sam's Publishing. I bought a
Sam's
> > > book once and wasn't too impressed. I know that doesn't reflect much
on
> > > this author's work. But, a publisher's reputation is worth
considering (ie.
> > > O'reilly and New Riders).
> > >
> >
> > I have a copy. It's reasonably good. Probably not as good a reference as
the
> > O'Reilly books, but that's mainly just format etc. The information
appears to
> > be all there, and makes a good read. Once I had it, I didn't need to ask
as
> > many stupid questions on the mailing list, so in that respect it's worth
the
> > money they want for it.
> >
> >
> I found the book a bit disappointing really.
> Too thin on the ground in some areas which are, or seem to be, confusing
> to many. And *why* do these books waste so many pages on telling you how
> to install the software, this information is not required in most cases.
> (Since it is so easily available anyway).
> The man who wrote it also wrote a less than useful book on sendmail.
> I see he has just published one on qmail as well.
>
> Nice to see a man with a hobby.
>
> Actually the most useful book I have found, that has helped me
> understand Postfix better, and the q/a's on the list is a book that
> is not specific to Postfix at all. It is called "Internet Email
> Protocols - A Developer's Guide", by Kevin Johnson. Addison-Wesley.
> I see it costs $44.95 in the US, it was about 3 times that in the
> Netherlands, but I recommend it highly.
>
> --
> Regards
> Cliff
>
>
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