Managing IMAP

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Summary: Does not cover the prerequisites
Review: Anyone can set up a POP3 server. Setting up an IMAP server is rather more difficult, especially if you want it to scale to handle more than just a few thousand users.

If you are administering "modern" Internet e-mail servers, then this book is a vital component of your bookshelf.

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Summary: IMAP is the future of Internet e-mail access...
Review: Anyone can set up a POP3 server. Setting up an IMAP server is rather more difficult, especially if you want it to scale to handle more than just a few thousand users.

If you are administering "modern" Internet e-mail servers, then this book is a vital component of your bookshelf.

Rating:
Summary: IMAP is the future of Internet e-mail access...
Review: Anyone can set up a POP3 server. Setting up an IMAP server is rather more difficult, especially if you want it to scale to handle more than just a few thousand users.

If you are administering "modern" Internet e-mail servers, then this book is a vital component of your bookshelf.

Rating:
Summary: Does not cover the prerequisites
Review: If you are looking to find out about the IMAP protocol - This book is very good, I bought it to help me install the Cyrus imap server. The book covers the installation of cyrus but it does not cover the prerequisites. I found the hardest part of setting up the Cyrus server was dealing with the software prerequisites, i.e. tcl and cyrus sasl. If you are interested in learning about the IMAP protocol, this is the book, if you are interested in setting up Cyrus - save your money.

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Summary: Long awaited book
Review: Just like the authors of this book, I was also very surprised why there isnt already a book on this subject. IMAP is spreading especially in webmail, enterprise and scalable systems.

The book covers excellently the two major IMAP opensource servers UW IMAP and Cyrus IMAP servers.

The book also touches subjects, as remote filtering, and remote configuration storage.

Although the book leaves the usage of LDAP as a remote configuration option mentioned but untouched.

The boot also talks about well known IMAP clients on Unix, Linux, MAC and Windowns platform such as (PINE, Eudora, Netscape Messanger etc).

The book also talks about web-based email systems such as IMP, WING etc.

One thing that I disliked about the book and for which reason it will not be get a room in my library and looses one star is that all screenshots of webbased mail systems are taken in MS Internet Explorer.

Uh? I thought it was one of the BLUE books of Oreilly not a RED one.

Perhaps the authors of this UNIX based book believe that a web-based email client consists of two parts: 1. A server side gateway such as IMP, WING 2. Microsoft Internet Explorer

Also, on page 69 the book states "Internet Explorer and OE are available for Windows 95/98/NT, Macintosh, and Unix". I dont think that its correct. I use a Unix system (IRIX), and I cannot seem to find one version for IRIX. Isnt IRIX Unix?

Other than that , its a fine book that should be in your library unless you run a MS free house like mine.

Rating:
Summary: Long awaited book
Review: Just like the authors of this book, I was also very surprised why there isnt already a book on this subject. IMAP is spreading especially in webmail, enterprise and scalable systems.

The book covers excellently the two major IMAP opensource servers UW IMAP and Cyrus IMAP servers.

The book also touches subjects, as remote filtering, and remote configuration storage.

Although the book leaves the usage of LDAP as a remote configuration option mentioned but untouched.

The boot also talks about well known IMAP clients on Unix, Linux, MAC and Windowns platform such as (PINE, Eudora, Netscape Messanger etc).

The book also talks about web-based email systems such as IMP, WING etc.

One thing that I disliked about the book and for which reason it will not be get a room in my library and looses one star is that all screenshots of webbased mail systems are taken in MS Internet Explorer.

Uh? I thought it was one of the BLUE books of Oreilly not a RED one.

Perhaps the authors of this UNIX based book believe that a web-based email client consists of two parts: 1. A server side gateway such as IMP, WING 2. Microsoft Internet Explorer

Also, on page 69 the book states "Internet Explorer and OE are available for Windows 95/98/NT, Macintosh, and Unix". I dont think that its correct. I use a Unix system (IRIX), and I cannot seem to find one version for IRIX. Isnt IRIX Unix?

Other than that , its a fine book that should be in your library unless you run a MS free house like mine.

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Summary: good practice, but not general enough
Review: The big limitation here is that this book concentrates on a couple of open-source packages, so lots of time is spent detailing their intricacies. I would think that a more general book on IMAP4 protocol would be helpful.
But there are good examples of CGI scripts that monitor and manage mail servers, for instance, that can be adapted by the creative sysadmin to many other purposes. I also wish that there was a CD-ROM disc, or website with the source code. Typing in code from a book is a drag. The good thing is that you can modify it and make it your own as you type it in.

Rating:
Summary: good practice, but not general enough
Review: The big limitation here is that this book concentrates on a couple of open-source packages, so lots of time is spent detailing their intricacies. I would think that a more general book on IMAP4 protocol would be helpful.
But there are good examples of CGI scripts that monitor and manage mail servers, for instance, that can be adapted by the creative sysadmin to many other purposes. I also wish that there was a CD-ROM disc, or website with the source code. Typing in code from a book is a drag. The good thing is that you can modify it and make it your own as you type it in.