A fast-paced and easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide that gets you up and running quickly
Qmail Basics
Storing and retrieving of emails
Virtualisation
Filtering Spam
Hosting Multiple Domains, Encryption, and Mailing Lists

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.

What you will learn from this book?
Installing, configuring, and compiling qmail
Getting emails in and out of the queue, along with storing, retrieving, and authenticating them
Virtualisation of domains and user management, filtering spam, and other advanced features like SSL encryption and mailing lists

Approach

This book gives practical examples that system administrators can use right away, but it also explains the basics behind every example clearly.

Who this book is written for?

This book is targeted at System Administrators familiar with Linux/UNIX and DNS servers who need to set up qmail.