sendmail 2nd Ed Rev&Upd|Bryan Costales,E. Allman 1565922220

||boek: sendmail 2nd Edition Revised & Updated|Help for UNIX System Administrators|O'Reilly Nutshell Handbook

||door: Bryan Costales, Eric Allman

||taal: en
||jaar: 1997
||druk: 2nd edition
||pag.: 1021p
||opm.: paperback|like new|hand notes

||isbn: 1-56592-222-0
||code: 1:002309

--- Over het boek (foto 1): sendmail 2nd Edition Revised & Updated ---

This second edition of sendmail covers sendmail Version 8.8 from Berkeley and the standard versions available on most systems. It is far and away the most comprehensive book ever written on sendmail, the program that acts like a traffic cop in routing and delivering mail on Unix-based networks. Although sendmail is used on almost every Unix system, it's one of the last great uncharted territories--and most difficult utilities to learn--in Unix system administration.This book provides a complete sendmail tutorial, plus extensive reference material on every aspect of the program. What's more, it's authoritative, having been coauthored by Eric Allman, the developer of sendmail. In addition to Version 8.8, it covers earlier versions available on many systems, such as those found on Sun workstations. Part One is a tutorial on understanding sendmail; Part Two covers the building, installation, and m4 configuration of sendmail; Part Three covers practical issues in sendmail administration; Part Four is a comprehensive reference section; and Part Five consists of appendixes and a bibliography.In this second edition an expanded tutorial demonstrates hub's cf file and nullclient.mc. Other topics include the #error delivery agent, sendmail's exit values, MIME headers, and how to set up and use the user database, mailertable, and smrsh. Solution-oriented examples throughout the book help you solve your own sendmail problems. Plus, this edition is cross-referenced with section numbers.

[source: https--www.amazon.com]

Better be a Unix C programmer before you try this! [2000-03-23]

The authors have written an excellent book ... excellent, that is, if you already know sendmail. An early chapter says that sendmail configuration is easy, but says "wasn't this..." (and displays a cryptic line of C code) "... hard to understand until you learned C?" Well, Eric and Bryan, I hate to break it to you, lads, but many of us just run mail servers and (horrors) we STILL don't know C. No less than six times in the first eight chapters, the authors say "this looks hard, but it'll be easy once you understand it." I *think* that's called a tautology, boys, but it doesn't help me to get to the goal of understanding. Walk me through a few cookbooks, then explain the overall stuff. Many of us are INDUCTIVE learners -- we need nuts 'n' bolts examples right up front.

Mark J. Minasi [source: https--www.amazon.com]

The book rules, period. [2000-10-02]

This book is a must for UNIX admins and systems analysts. Plenty of details to cover most topics. Great book!

Christopher M. Batman [source: https--www.amazon.com]

[2018-04-04]

Thanks for this great product

Benjamin Gabriel Mozas [source: https--www.amazon.com]

The Batbook is necessary if you admin a Sendmail server [2000-11-26]

I too, am awaiting a third edition to address the major changes in versions 8.10 (which I use) and now the latest 8.11.1. Many of the reviewers are correct where they recommend that you need to have some admin, UNIX/LINUX, and some C++ language experience to fully understand the book. I had to delve into the sendmail.cf file myself and then correlate the applicable section of the sendmail.cf file to it's applicable section in the batbook and learn to understand the book and the inner workings of Sendmail. Once I made the connections and correlations between this book and sendmail.cf, this book became invaluable. In fact, it is the only legitimate complete resource on this software. In one sense, I wish it was a little more tutorial based in nature when I first started learning how to configure sendmail pressured and on the fly when our e-mail server went down and I had to become the "official expert" replacing my ex-boss the former "official expert", who left for "greener pastures". It's easy to read the book now since I know more about sendmail. I'm glad the book is here, Surfing through the sendmail.org page to find info is a nightmare. Surfing many personal webpages concerning sendmail, Many have incomplete answers to your questions and these people always tell you that if the answers to your questions are not present, "BUY THE BATBOOK"

Rouser [source: https--www.amazon.com]

Everything you ever wanted to know about Sendmail but... were afraid to ask! [2003-01-22]

If you want or have to work with sendmail the ubiquitous SMTP server written by Eric Allman et. al. then this is the book for you. I have been an Unix system administrator for 15+ years and I still run to this book when I have to do anything fancy with sendmail.

Every system administrator worth their salt has to munge the sendmail.cf file at least once in their career. This book will at least point you in the right direction.

Peter L. Berghold [source: https--www.amazon.com]

out of date, poor tutorial, decent reference [2001-08-10]

...I've owned both v1 and v2 of this book, and have continually been frustrated by both.

Big problems here are that the book isn't tremendously helpful for learning - more of a reference, and that it is at least four years out of date, which is a long time considering what's happened with the Internet since then....

woodstea [source: https--www.amazon.com]

Buy it but look elsewhere too [2000-11-09]

This book is a godsend just because it's there, not because it's that good. You'll have to look elsewhere too (like sendmail.org). In fairness, configuring sendmail in all its complexity is a mess, so the book had its work cut out. However, it's not that hard to configure a simple sendmail installation, and the book should have made that possible within the first few chapters. As it stands, I'm not sure at what point in the book you should be able to actually send email without having to learn everything.

Cat [source: https--www.amazon.com]

--- Over (foto 2): 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).

Bryan Costales wrote the very successful "sendmail" (bat book) for O'Reilly Media. His most recent credits are short stories published in The Banyon Review, Romance Magazine, the Riptide Journal, and Gold Dust Magazine. His first two novels were "Jo" and "Thread Twice Cut" both published by Fool Church Media. Bryan lives in Eugene, Oregon where he dabbles in photography.

[source: https--www.amazon.com]

Bryan Costales wrote the very successful "sendmail" (bat book) for O'Reilly Media. His most recent credits are short stories published in The Banyon Review, Romance Magazine, and the Riptide Journal.

Bryan is CTO with Fool Church Media. He lives in the great Northwest where he shoots professionally published photography, dabbles in gardening, and explores nature. His interests range from science to politics to public transportation. Everthing you ever wanted to know about him can be found at bryancostale.com.

[source: http--www.bryancostales.com]

Bryan Costales lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest. He has been active in system administration and software development for more than 20 years and has been writing articles and books about computer software for more than 25 years. His most notable books are C from A to Z (Prentice Hall), Unix Communications (Howard Sams), and sendmail (O'Reilly Media). In addition to technical books, he also writes fiction (Fool Church Media) and hosts a free multimedia web site bcx.news. He published his first novel, "Jo." And is hard at work on his second novel, "Puppet."

[source: https--www.oreilly.com/pub/au/358]

Bryan Costales wrote the very successful "sendmail" (bat book) for O'Reilly Media. His most recent credits are short stories published in The Banyon Review, Romance Magazine, the Riptide Journal, and Gold Dust Magazine. Bryan lives in Eugene, Oregon where he dabbles in photography.

[source: https--www.goodreads.com]

--- Over (foto 3): Eric Allman ---

Eric Paul Allman (born September 2, 1955) is an American computer programmer who developed sendmail and its precursor delivermail in the late 1970s and early 1980s at UC Berkeley. In 1998, Allman and Greg Olson co-founded the company Sendmail, Inc.

Education and training

Born in El Cerrito, California, Allman knew from an early age that he wanted to work in computing, He used to break into his high school's mainframe and later used the UC Berkeley computing center for his computing needs. In 1973, he entered UC Berkeley, just as the Unix operating system began to become popular in academic circles. He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC Berkeley in 1977 and 1980 respectively.

Sendmail and Syslog

As the Unix source code was available at Berkeley, the local hackers quickly made many extensions to the AT&T code. One such extension was delivermail, which in 1981 turned into sendmail. As an MTA, it was designed to deliver email over the still relatively small (as compared to today's Internet) ARPANET, which consisted of many smaller networks with vastly differing formats for e-mail headers.

Sendmail soon became an important part of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) and it used to be the most widely used MTA on Unix based systems, despite its somewhat complex configuration syntax and frequent abuse by Internet telemarketing firms. In 1998, Allman and Greg Olson founded Sendmail, Inc., headquartered in Emeryville, California, to do proprietary work on improving sendmail.

The logging format used by the MTA, known as syslog, was at first used solely by sendmail, but eventually became an unofficial standard format used by other unrelated programs for logging. Later, this format was made official by RFC 3164 in 2001; however, the original format has been made obsolete by the most recent revision, RFC 5424.

Other contributions

Allman is credited with popularizing the Allman indent style, also known as BSD indent style. He ported a Fortran version of Super Star Trek to the C programming language, which later became BSD Trek, and is still included in various Linux distributions as part of the classic bsdgames package.

He was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology in August, 2006 in Telluride, Colorado. In 2009 he was recognized as a Distinguished Engineer by the Association for Computing Machinery. In April 2014 he was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.

Personal life

Allman, who is gay, lives in Berkeley, California, with Marshall Kirk McKusick, who had been his partner for more than 30 years before they got married in October 2013. The two first met in graduate school. McKusick is a lead developer of BSD.

"There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being touched by a gay program. That's kind of funny." --Eric Allman

[source: wikipedia]

Internet Hall of Fame Innovator

While working on the INGRES Relational Database Management Project at the University of California at Berkeley, Allman created delivermail for the ARPAnet and sendmail, one of the first Mail Transfer Agents on the Internet. Both were distributed as part of the Berkeley Software Distribution.

For many years, sendmail ran on most Internet mail servers, and it remains a major player. Allman was the first to make Internet addresses highly configurable by rewriting rule technology. With his Request For Comments email standardization work and practical implementations, he had a major influence on the email transport technology used today. He also created syslog, the de facto standard logging mechanism used in nearly all open systems and peripherals.

After leaving UC Berkeley, Allman worked at Britton Lee (later Sharebase) on database interface software and at the International Computer Science Institute on the Ring Array Processor Project for neural-net-based speech recognition. He returned to UC Berkeley at the Mammoth Project, building department-wide research infrastructure for the Computer Science Division. He then founded Sendmail, Inc., an email infrastructure company based on his work at Berkeley. After leaving Sendmail, he worked at SQLstream on streaming data analytics. He has since returned to Berkeley, working in the Swarm Lab on open platforms to support large swarms of sensors and actuators for ubiquitous distributed computing (sometimes called the Internet of Things).

Allman is a member of the governing council of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a founding member of the ACM Queue Editorial Board. He is a Distinguished Member of ACM and was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology.

He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC Berkeley in 1977 and 1980, respectively.

[source: https--www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/eric-allman]

I am the author of sendmail, syslog, tset, trek, and several other programs. I was co-founder of Sendmail, Inc. I am author of a few IETF RFCs. I started my career on the INGRES Relational Database Management System Project while a student at Berkeley, becoming the Lead Programmer there. I then moved to Britton Lee doing interfaces for one of the first database servers (which we called "database machines" because the name "client/server" hadn't become popular yet). I've also worked at The International Computer Science Institute on the Ring Array Processor Project for neural-net-based speech recognition and SQLstream doing streaming data analytics. I was co-founder (with Greg Olson) of Sendmail, Inc., one of the first "hybrid open source/commercial" companies. My latest gig is at the Swarm Lab at U.C. Berkeley working on the Global Data Plane, a data storage and transmission layer emphasizing security and scalability focusing on edge computing including large swarms of sensors and actuators (sometimes called the Internet of Things).

I'm a founding member of the Editorial Review Board of ACM Queue magazine. I'm on the board of the Hillside Club. Previously, I was Vice President and Treasurer of USENIX Association. a member of the ACM Council, and on the Board of Trustees for Cal Performances (but thankfully not all at once).

I am co-author of the O'Reilly book Sendmail. I've also written a chapter for The Architecture of Open Source Applications, and have authored many papers, articles, and columns, some of which are referenced above.

I was happily semi-retired for a while, but then (to my surprise) decided I wanted more social contact. After spending a career wishing that people would just go away and leave you alone so you could get some work done, it's quite a shock when they actually do it, and not nearly as pleasant as you might think.

During my semi-retirement I did manage to get re-engaged with hardware, playing with Arduino and other toys. I had been documenting those projects on my blog, but my blog software didn't survive my last system upgrade, so I'm trying to find a Plan B.

I'm the brother of Cat Allman and the husband of Kirk McKusick.

See the links at the right side of the page for more information about me and other projects and organizations with which I've been involved.

[source: http--www.neophilic.com/~eric]

Eric Allman is a computer programmer who created the sendmail mail transport agent. The software allowed for the delivery of email to computers connected to the Internet and quickly became the de facto standard on Unix-like systems. Allman also created syslog which became the standard logging solution for applications running under Unix-like systems.

[source: https--www.facesofopensource.com/eric-allman]

Eric Allman authored sendmail and syslog in 1981 while at the University of California at Berkeley. Sendmail was the first electronic mail transfer agent for the Internet and remains popular to this day. He is currently working at the Ubiquitous Swarm Lab (http--swarmlab.eecs.berkeley.edu) at U.C. Berkeley.

[source: https--www.oreilly.com/pub/au/359]

Eric Allman is Sendmail, Inc.'s chief technology officer and co-founder. Allman authored sendmail, the world's first Internet Mail program, in 1981 while at the University of California at Berkeley. He continues to spearhead sendmail.org, the global team of volunteers that maintain and support the sendmail open source platform.

[source: https--www.amazon.com]