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.


could the list recommend a book to complement "The Definitive Guide" that would cover just such things: amavis-new, spam-assassin, pop-before-smtp, etc?

"The Definitive Guide" is definitely on my shopping list, too.

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thanks 8^)

Cameron Knowlton
cameronk@igods.com