The Book of Postfix

Ralf Hildebrandt, Patrick Koetter9781593270018, 1-59327-001-1

Best practices for Postfix–the popular alternative to Sendmail.
Developed with security and speed in mind, Postfix has become a popular alternative to Sendmail and comes preinstalled in many Linux distributions as the default mailer. The Book of Postfix is a complete guide to Postfix whether used at home, as a mailrelay or virus-scanning gateway, or as a company mailserver. Practical examples show how to deal with daily challenges like protecting mail users from spam and viruses, managing multiple domains, and offering roaming access.

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Table of contents :
Brief Contents
……Page 9
Contents in Detail
……Page 13
01 –
An Introduction to Postfix……Page 29
02 – Preparing Your Host and Environment
……Page 35
03 – Mail Server for a Single Domain
……Page 45
04 – Dial-Up Mail Server for a Single Domain
……Page 57
05 – Anatomy of Postfix
……Page 63
06 – Postmaster’s Primer to Email
……Page 83
07 – How Message Transfer Restrictions Work
……Page 97
08 – Using Message Transfer Restrictions
……Page 109
09 – How Built-in Content Filters Work
……Page 139
10 – Using Built-in Content Filters
……Page 145
11 – How External Content Filters Work
……Page 157
12 – Using External Content Filters
……Page 169
13 – Mail Gateways
……Page 197
14 – A Mail Server for Multiple Domains
……Page 217
15 – Understanding SMTP Authentication
……Page 245
16 – SMTP Authentication
……Page 275
17 – Understandign Transport Layer Security
……Page 295
18 – Using Transport Layer Security
……Page 307
19 – A Company Mail Server
……Page 341
20 – Running Postfix in a chroot Environment
……Page 397
21 – Remote Client Concurrency and Request Rate Limiting
……Page 407
22 – Performance Tuning
……Page 415
Appendix A – Installing Postfix
……Page 435
Appendix B – Troubleshooting Postfix
……Page 447
Appendix C – CIDR and SMTP Standards Reference
……Page 463
Glossary
……Page 469
INDEX
……Page 477