Re: Bought Book

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Robert Krueger wrote:

> Don't waste your money. I already have it.
> Doesn't even mention fetchmail, procmail or spamassassin, three very
> common tools used by many in conjunction with Postfix.
> If you read the docs that come with Postfix including the man pages, The
> Definitive Guide is nothing more than indexed regurgitation.
>

Different books address the needs of different users... A good review is
not of the form "It's great" vs. "It sucks" variant. Better would be to
address the question of what the book covers well and which users it is
most suited for.

"The Definitive Guide" appears to me to be a reasonably comprehensive
introduction to *Postfix* for new users. It is not a book about Spam
Assasin, POP-before-smtp, RBL list selection, ... It is not a book for
experienced users looking for low level details to aid performance tuning
and troubleshooting for high volume sites.

The Postfix community is likely diverse enough to be well served by
multiple books. Keep those books coming...

--
Viktor.