- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (16 Mar 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201379570
- ISBN-13: 978-0201379570
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.5 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,859,098 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Written for network and system administrators, this concise, practical guide offers step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring an effective email system for your organization. The specific book focus is on the growing problem of spam--unwanted electronic junk mail. This book shows how to utilize mail-filtering tools and techniques to keep your system and users as spam-free as possible. Centered around real-world problems and issues, Removing the Spam will save you hours of frustration as you get your email system up and running. You will find in-depth coverage of major email systems and subsystems--sendmail, Procmail, Majordomo, and SmartList--and essential information about the following: *How to stop spam at the mail server and user levels *The most simple and effective way of generating the sendmail configuration file *Maintaining your sendmail configuration *Building and managing simple sendmail aliases and filters *Virtual domains *Filtering and sorting mail with Procmail *Procmail recipe files *Creating and administrating automated and manual mailing lists with Majordomo and SmartList *How to spot and combat mailing list abuse by spammers and list terrorists The book's numerous practical examples (compatible with Solaris and FreeBSD) include controlling the procmailrc file, sorting mail, working with auto-responders, and many others. With this book you will be well equipped to install and run an efficient email system that won't be overrun by spam. 0201379570B04062001
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Let's all work together to stop spam!
I wrote this book to help the overworked and often underappreciated email adminstrator deal with the complex job of setting up and maintaining their mail servers. You should be able to find cookbook style solutions to the most common problems, such as how to install and configure sendmail and how to get it to automatically drop spam messages and how to write and use spam filters and how to properly setup mailing lists.
I wrote this book to help the overworked and often underappreciated email adminstrator deal with the complex job of setting up and maintaining their mail servers. You should be able to find cookbook style solutions to the most common problems, such as how to install and configure sendmail and how to get it to automatically drop spam messages and how to write and use spam filters and how to properly setup mailing lists.
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Format:Paperback
I bought this book for the procmail chapter (Chapter 3) but the other chapters, on sendmail and mailing lists, are also very useful. There is also an enlightening chapter on the history of email. The bulk of the book is a collection clear recipes along with explanatory text, in a practical how-to-get-tasks-done approach. In contrast to other encyclopedic books (in the case of sendmail) or disorganized masses of inconsistent web information (in the case of mailing lists), this book cuts to the chase and gives the key information you need.
Unfortunately, however, in the chapter I needed most (and the chapter I have scrutinized most), I found there are serious flaws. For example, the first two procmail recipes given under 3.5.2 on page 102 resulted in several days worth of my email getting deleted; they simply do not work as described on my system; when I removed these two recipes my email again worked fine.
If you are going to buy this book, wait for the author to put up an errata page, and then be sure to check that page before relying on the recipes in the book. In the meantime I still think the book has its merits since it explains things clearly.
Format:Paperback
I really liked this book. It is well organized and easy to use. There isn't a lot of hype about SPAM, just the essentials and exactly what you can do about it! If you have to deal with EMAIL get this book.
Format:Paperback
This is an excellent reference book for system administrators. I was able to set up a mailing list using the cook book instructions in a matter of minutes. I was also able to install my initial SPAM filtering using the instructions in the procmail chapter and had it up and running with little effor. Geoff is to be commended for writing a book the makes these things simple to do!!!
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Nice try, but a disappointment
This is really a book about setting up some Unix mail tools: sendmail, procmail, majordomo, and smartlist, with modest amounts of spam fighting advice included. Read more
Published on 5 April 1999
Great for System Admins and Power Users
"Removing the Spam" is an excellent book that deals with mail administration in a unix environment. Read more
Published on 30 Mar 1999
Good coverage with links
Good coverage of sendmail, procmail, mailing lists for beginners to email filtering. It's short enough to be read and it contains "links" to more information.
Published on 29 Dec 1998
Learn how to filter out spam
This is a very complete discussion of the infrastructure of email, well-suited to anyone trying to understand enough to be able to filter out Spam.
Published on 29 Dec 1998
Impressive step-by-step guide for sys admins
Mulligan knows his material well. The technological grounding is impressive. I did not catch him in a single error in the entire book. He explains clearly and illustrates amply. Read more
Published on 29 Dec 1998
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