Pro Open Source Mail: Building an Enterprise Mail Solution

Description

Providing the range of mail-related services expected by organizations can be a confusing, daunting process. Pro Open Source Mail: Building an Enterprise Mail Solution presents a comprehensive guide to managing the most important e-mail services, including user administration, mail transfer agents, remote e-mail access, virus protection, spam and e-mail filtering, web-based e-mail, and mailing list maintenance.

Beginning with installation and configuration of the popular server-based operating system Fedora Core, the book outlines the system and network preparation process geared towards running a complete enterprise e-mail system. Subsequent chapters cover installation and configuration of sendmail, the popular POP3/IMAP server Dovecot, and ClamAV and SpamAssassin for virus protection and spam filtering. With a nod to the global e-mail availability now required by many organizations, this book also guides you through configuration of a web-based mail interface, mailing-list software, and advanced security and privacy topics.

CONTENTS:

PART 1-Preparing Your Infrastructure
CHAPTER 1 An Introduction to E-mail
CHAPTER 2 Building Your Server
CHAPTER 3 Bringing Your Server Online for the First Time

PART 2-sendmail
CHAPTER 4 Introducing SMTP and sendmail
CHAPTER 5 Configuring sendmail and DNS
CHAPTER 6 Populating Your sendmail Databases
CHAPTER 7 Testing Your sendmail Installation

PART 3-Remote Client Access to E-mail with POP3 and IMAP
CHAPTER 8 Introducing POP3 and IMAP
CHAPTER 9 Introducing and Installing Dovecot
CHAPTER 10 Securing Remote Client Access with SSL

PART 4-Webmail
CHAPTER 11 Introducing and Installing Apache and PHP
CHAPTER 12 Introducing and Installing SquirrelMail

PART 5-Filtering E-mail
CHAPTER 13 Introducing E-mail Filtering with procmail
CHAPTER 14 Using MailScanner for Content Filtering

PART 6-Fighting E-mail Viruses and Worms
CHAPTER 15 Using ClamAV to Block E-mail Viruses and Worms

PART 7-Fighting Spam
CHAPTER 16 Introducing General Spam Countermeasures
CHAPTER 17 Introducing and Installing SpamAssassin
CHAPTER 18 Configuring SpamAssassin

PART 8-Managing Mailing Lists
CHAPTER 19 Introducing and Installing Mailman
CHAPTER 20 Mailman Site Administration and Mailing List

PART 9-Advanced Topics
CHAPTER 21 Advanced SMTP and E-mail Security

PART 10 - Appendix
APPENDIX sendmail.mc
INDEX