The Book of Postfix: State-of-the-art Message Transport
Today I have finished reading The Book of Postfix – State-of-the-Art Message Transport by Ralf Hildebrandt and Patric Koetter. It took me almost a month to read it, the book has 496 pages, and i was reading it while going to work and back home.
I could say that i am more than average postfix user and know it quite well. I am managing quite big mail servers ( a few million mails per day, >= 100k mailboxes ) and give free support in #postfix @ freenode ( but i always like if i get something in return! ).
I liked the book – i did learn a few things from it, although i don’t know if their up to date, so i will have to check it out. Most useful chapters i found are:
- Chapter 19: A Company Mail Server
- Chapter 22: Performance Tuning
Overall, i did like the book and i will definitely offer it to my friends who want to start with postfix.
I really wish there would be some info on stuff like milters and delivery slots in this book, as i am not familiar with it yet and would really like to read more about it.
I give the book a 9 (because it missed the milters, delivery slots and etc.).
Great work Patrick && Ralf, and thanks Roman123 for sending me the book.