Managing IMAP: Help for E-mail Administrators: Amazon.de: Dianna Mullet, Kevin Mullet: Englische Bücher

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Plain old Post Office Protocol (POP) is fine for just logging in and grabbing your e-mail from a dial-up service, but more elaborate mail-management and messaging solutions require a more capable protocol. The Internet Mail Access Protocol (IMAP) fits the bill by allowing you to pull off all sorts of mail-management tricks. With IMAP, a single user can see the same messages and folders on many computers, or multiple users (members of a sales team, say) can each integrate a common folder into their individual organisational hierarchies. Managing IMAP shows how to perform these feats and many others, and presents a rigorous comparison of IMAP clients and servers.

On the server side, the book focuses on the University of Washington IMAP server--the standard implementation that IMAP inventor Mark Crispin wrote--and the feature-rich Cyrus IMAP server. The features of each are explained, in addition to how each integrates with its operating system. "Common Tasks" for each are covered, including details of precisely what system administrators have to do to establish access privileges on a mailbox, add users, set up shared folders and so on through their respective feature sets. Most of the how-to material takes the form of "type this, get that" listings, with plenty of annotation that explains what's going on. Later sections are platform-neutral, covering security (perhaps better covered in specialised texts), spam filtering and performance optimisation. Managing IMAP has done a great job of cataloguing and commenting upon the various IMAP administration utilities that exist. --David Wall

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Plain old Post Office Protocol (POP) is fine for just logging in and grabbing your e-mail from a dial-up service, but more elaborate mail-management and messaging solutions require a more capable protocol. The Internet Mail Access Protocol (IMAP) fits the bill by allowing you to pull off all sorts of mail-management tricks. With IMAP, a single user can see the same messages and folders on many computers, or multiple users (say, members of a sales team) each can integrate a common folder into individual organizational hierarchies. Managing IMAP shows how to perform these feats and many others, and presents a rigorous comparison of IMAP clients and servers.

On the server side, the book focuses on the University of Washington IMAP server--the standard implementation that IMAP inventor Mark Crispin wrote--and the feature-rich Cyrus IMAP server. The features of each are explained, in addition to how each integrates with its operating system. "Common Tasks" for each are covered, including details of precisely what system administrators have to do to establish access privileges on a mailbox, add users, set up shared folders, and so on through their respective feature sets. Most of the how-to material takes the form of "type this, get that" listings, with plenty of annotation that explains what's going on. Later sections are platform-neutral, covering security (perhaps better covered in specialized texts), spam filtering, and performance optimization. Managing IMAP has done a great job of cataloguing and commenting upon the various IMAP administration utilities that exist. --David Wall

Topics covered: The Internet Mail Access Protocol (IMAP) and its implementation, especially in the University of Washington's IMAP server and the Cyrus IMAP server. After presenting the case for IMAP and comparing it to Post Office Protocol (POP), the book shows how to set up and administer both major IMAP servers. It also compares IMAP clients. Other topics that are covered include security, user management, and scalability. A directory of IMAP administration interfaces and an IMAP command reference round out the volume.

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Caveat Emptor: Content OK, but badly outdated 28. Juli 2003

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This book was published in September 2000 and is badly outdated. For example, it covers Netscape Messenger 4.61 (current version as of this writing: 7.1), Outlook Express 5.0 (current version of Explorer: 6.1 SP1, Express version 5.0.6), and StarMail 5.1 (OpenOffice version is currently at 1.1 RC2, without an email client, StarOffice at 6.0). It doesn't cover Mozilla at all. The book talks about the "upcoming version 2" of Cyrus IMAP, whereas the version on my hard disk is already at 2.1.14.

The content itself is well-written and informative, you just don't know how much of it is still current.

This book might be for you if you don't require up-to-date information. If you do, however, and if you don't have any other means of distinguishing old from new information, you should probably stay away from it.

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very good to understand, very much yet compact information 30. April 2001

Von Jochen Staerk

it's a great book for all imap-administrators who will benefit from the profound experience of Diana & Kevin Mullet - not only the setups of UW IMAP server and Cyrus IMAP 1.5.19 and 1.6 are shown but also migration between the two, SSL encryption, ACLs, performance and security chapters, IMAP Clients are tested and APIs mentioned. I'll give it only 4 stars because it IMHO has one flaw - it would only have taken one addional appendix to make the book not only the best book for IMAP admins on systems from 250-250000 Users but also to show more deliberately how to use IMAP on SoHo systems with 2-15 users and the need of pop3 fetching (and IMAP delivery of those msgs).

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good practice, but not general enough 31. Juli 2002

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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.

OK Book but not Excellent 15. Mai 2006

Von R. soto-navarro - Ver�ffentlicht auf Amazon.com

I give this book a grade C. It talks about the benefits of IMAP and about the most popular IMAP servers Cyrus-Imap and WU-IMAP. It shows an intro to both these servers but it does not go into technical details. I had to go to other sources in order to find out how to setup Cyrus IMAP properly and how to troubleshoot it. I wish they had a more recent Revision like the other O'Reilly books that are kept updated. There are a lot of differences between the IMAP servers of the year 2000 and the IMAP servers in 2006. I wish there was an O'Reilly technical book on just Cyrus-IMAP and anotherone for Dovecot-IMAP (my second choice for an IMAP server). Someone needs to write a new IMAP book, please!

Good Rapid Admin Information 10. Januar 2010

Von Mark Train - Ver�ffentlicht auf Amazon.com

If you are a *NIX sysadmin you don't have a lot of time to learn every application you're expected to support in the depth you'd like to. This is one of those books that gets you the information you need to make decisions about which versions of IMAP to implement, why, and how to manage them and the pro's and con's. Also had some good migration commands. Good quick ref for CYRUS, etc.

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