Programming Applications for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007

Product Description

Get the comprehensive reference for extending Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. Many knowledge workers rely on Office Outlook to help them structure their days managing e-mail messages, calendars, contacts, and tasks. Now, with new extensibility features in Office Outlook 2007, developers can create add-ins that allow data from other tools and applications to be hosted within Outlook 2007. By gathering more information together in one application and one so familiar users can experience increased levels of productivity. This complete guide shows developers how to exploit the new features in Office Outlook 2007 to extend, adapt, and customize information flow to the desktop. Includes code samples in Microsoft Visual Basic® and Microsoft Visual C#®.

Delivers authoritative platform guidance to inform developers when add-in and form customizations are appropriate

Provides add-in templates and extensive code samples in Visual Basic and Visual C# (with additional information about Visual C++)

Features end-to-end sample applications

Customer Reviews:

Great Book.......2007-03-30

Anyone who develops on Outlook should buy this book -- even if you don't have Outlook 2007. The beginning chapters review best practices and underlying architecture that every Outlook developer should understand, regardless of which version of Outlook you're using. Plus, you'll see all the great new stuff in 2007 which you'll want, so you can convince your stakeholders to upgrade. Later chapters drill into the technical details with surprising depth so you can find out what you need with only minimal trips to MSDN. Code samples are generous, albeit limited to only managed code... but that's understandable given the obvious advantages to using it for rapid application development.

The difference between this book and previous attempts to document the Outlook development experience is like night and day. Kudos to Randy and Ryan for understanding what we face and doing an admirable job at enlightening us.

Average customer rating:

Good book, unfortunately not the best in the field...
A very good book about Postfix
Good reference guide for PostFix
Not what I was expecting
This is a great book.

Postfix: The Definitive Guide
Kyle Dent
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Postfix is a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA): software that mail servers use to route email. Postfix is highly respected by experts for its secure design and tremendous reliability. And new users like it because it's so simple to configure. In fact, Postfix has been adopted as the default MTA on Mac OS X. It is also compatible with sendmail, so that existing scripts and programs continue to work seamlessly after it is installed. Postfix was written by well-known security expert Wietse Venema, who reviewed this book intensively during its entire development. Author Kyle Dent covers a wide range of Postfix tasks, from virtual hosting to controls for unsolicited commercial email. While basic configuration of Postfix is easy, every site has unique needs that call for a certain amount of study. This book, with careful background explanations and generous examples, eases readers from the basic configuration to the full power of Postfix. It discusses the Postfix interfaces to various tools that round out a fully scalable and highly secure email system. These tools include POP, IMAP, LDAP, MySQL, Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL), and Transport Layer Security (TLS, an upgrade of SSL). A reference section for Postfix configuration parameters and an installation guide are included. Topics include:

Basic installation and configuration
DNS configuration for email
Working with POP/IMAP servers
Hosting multiple domains (virtual hosting)
Mailing lists
Handling unsolicited email (spam blocking)
Security through SASL and TLS

From compiling and installing Postfix to troubleshooting, Postfix: The Definitive Guide offers system administrators and anyone who deals with Postfix an all-in-one, comprehensive tutorial and reference to this MTA.

Customer Reviews:

Good book, unfortunately not the best in the field..........2006-12-08

I've got all three books in the field, and this is a good book. Unfortunately, although Kyle's book was co-written by the author of the software, I believe that "The Book of Postfix: State-of-the-Art Message Transport" by Ralf Hildebrandt is a better choice.

A very good book about Postfix.......2006-02-19

I wasn't looking for esoteric information on how to administer Sendmail. I was looking for a book on Postfix and that's what the author provided. I got the book based a lot on the quality of O'Reilly books and the editor's reputation. Andy Oram is a top notch editor. I recommend this book to any Linux or UNIX person wanting to substitute Postfix for sendmail. Postfix is a drop in replacement for systems configured for sendmail but Postfix is not a monlithic program with lots of vulnerabilities. The author expalins that perfectly.

Good reference guide for PostFix.......2005-04-26

PostFix is a replacement mail server, MTA, for Unix based systems that
formerly used Sendmail or other variants. PostFix was written to be a
drop in replacement for Sendmail but with it's own variations on control
files.

This book outlines most of the common issues in dealing with setting up
PostFix. The author takes the reader through the design concerns outlined
by the author of the program, Wietse Venema, who wrote the forward of the
book.

Sendmail has been a staple of the mail delivery world but it has a well
deserved reputation for being hard to setup, administer and understand.
The O'Reilly book on Sendmail is at least 3 times as large as this book.
There is alot to learn about its' macro language and using M4 to build
control files. Sendmail is a very hard program for a beginner to
understand and configure properly.

The author spends the first few chapters discussing how a mail server is
supposed to work; how the DNS system interacts with the mail system. There
are well laid out block diagrams to show the flow of email through a
system. Any SysAdmin who has spent time administering a mail system can
probably skip the first few chapters. Those who are new to running a mail
server should find the begining chapters enlightening.

PostFix mostly uses easy to read control files that don't require processing.
The program can be set up to use the Unix standard mbox delivery format or
the newer maildir format. The book explains the pros and cons of the 2
storage formats both from the MTA perspective and the pop or imap
interface.

Most of the more common configuration tweaks used in securing a Sendmail
system also apply to a PostFix installation. They are just easier to set
up in PostFix with the examples provided.

The book has a section devoted to setting up secure mail relay using the
Cyrus SASL libraries. It details setting up the password database via the
Unix standard or shadow format, SASL, LDAP PAM or MYSQL formats. The
author discusses ways to further secure the connection by using TLS
connections to ensure passwords are not compromised.

PostFix has some built in anti-spam tools. The book has a chapter devoted
to to pros and cons of the various approaches. Examples of "reasonable"
and "paranoid" approaches for setting up PostFix are provided. A simpler
apporoach than jumping directly into Spam Assassin or other
spam pre-processors

Mailing lists are another feature that PostFix can manage. The book has
examples of various simple ways of setting up mailing lists short of
installing a separate program like MajorDomo. This is a handy feature.

There are Appendixes intended to walk a user through the compiling process
which will help users not familiar with using Make. There is a listing of
the PostFix parameter commands and what they all mean.

PostFix the Definitive Guide is a well written, easy to read step by step
instruction book for using the PostFix mail server. Using this book as a
reference, an experienced SysAdmin should make the transition from
Sendmail to PostFix without much trouble. For someone new to the world of
MTA's, the book should answer most of the questions associated with
getting a PostFix mail server up and running.

This is another O'Reilly book that should be on a SysAdmin's bookshelf.

Not what I was expecting.......2004-12-17

If you're looking for a comprehensive guide on setting up a Postfix mail server, then this isn't the book for you. For those that are already familiar with setting up MTAs, the information provided in "The Definitive Guide" is probably enough, but this book only covers a subset of the Postfix configuration parameters and does not provide the step-by-step instructions that many people may be expecting.

This is a great book........2004-08-14

After over a month of trying to get my first email server up and running using the try a setting, see what happens method, I finally gave up and bought this book. Now I'm in business.

Everywhere I read, people claimed the easiest to configure MTA was postfix, so that is why I began to use it. True, the documention on the website is helpful and so are the included examples, but if you don't have the concepts down, that is useless.

Thats where this great book comes in. This book isn't just a paper copy of the online docs, unlike most other computer books. It explains what stuff is, does, and what it means. I can read the config file just fine, I just don't know what the settings do. For example, the online docs showed how to setup masquerading and examples, but never told me what that meant. From a newbie standpoint, the masquerade meant the same thing as an alias. Well, those words mean the same thing. I need the vocabulary from the book to help me understand. Conanical is a common work in computer land? Maybe in Silicon Valley but not in NJ.

A glowing chapter is DNS and e-mail which more than pays for the entire book. Not only to I understand DNS better, I can setup a backup mail system. Another great thing is the author shows you an entire setup zone file in one chunk, instead of line by line explanations and never showing you the whole thing put together. DNS and Bind book anyone? For shame.

Also, The Hosting Multiple Domains is a fantastic chapter.

Anyways, if you are lost and feeling like and idiot like I was, get this book. Thanks Mr. Dent for a fantastic book that is clear and easy to understand.

The Rational Guide to Building SharePoint Web Parts (Rational Guides)

Average customer rating:

Excellent easy to read book.
very Simple
Avoid this book.
Great intro to Sharepoint Webparts
Great Introduction, You'll pass your book in your first week

The Rational Guide to Building SharePoint Web Parts (Rational Guides)
Darrin Bishop
Manufacturer: Rational Press
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Learn the complex issues in creating Web Parts for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services (built into Windows Server 2003). Save countless hours by learning the correct way to develop Web Parts. This book does not cover SharePoint administration...it just dives right into Web Part development and related issues.

This book takes a rational, no-nonsense approach in a compact guide - only 176 pages. The book is written for a beginner to intermediate-level developer, so you get the basics…fast! It covers the basics of virtually all areas of managing SharePoint Web Parts, including creation, testing, and deployment. Technical accuracy is assured by Zac Woodall, Program Manager, Office DBI, Microsoft Corporation.

This book comes with free bonus materials:
1. Extra Chapter - Using the WPPackager
2. Extra Chapter - Using External Resources
3. Code examples in C# and VB .NET
4. Sample Web Parts and Policy File

Customer Reviews:

Excellent easy to read book........2007-01-10

A good book to read to get the basic idea of how to build SharePoint web parts. Good examples that are easy to understand. Together with additional resources on Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and SharePoint portal Server 2003 this book enables you to easily create custom web parts. Recommended together with the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit.

very Simple.......2006-07-26

The book covers the fundamentals of web part architecture very well. This book is essentially a "guide", does not elaborate on programming techniques in tricky scenarios that a developer may encounter.

Avoid this book. .......2006-06-27

I could ingest 5 pounds of paper and excrete a better book.

The author, at a MINIMUM, should have put some "You code should now look similar to this" areas in the book. He just blurts out snippets of code and its just a miss-mosh piss poor attempt at teaching people the craptastic technology known as SharePoint.

Get an Unleashed book or something from Murach if he has it.

Great intro to Sharepoint Webparts.......2005-10-14

Being new to Sharepoint and webparts, I found this book to be concise and to-the-point. Guides you through basic webpart development in C# (when you register the book you can get code in VB if you desire). The book also discusses in straightforward terms debugging, deployment of webparts, code access security, targeting audiences and personalizing content. Plus it is only 175 pages, so it won't collapse your bookshelf.

Great Introduction, You'll pass your book in your first week.......2005-08-24

Great book to jump start your web part development. Doesn't handle advanced topics and requires registration to get "freeeeeeeeee bonus material*"

Advanced SharePoint Services Solutions (Books for Professionals by Professionals)

Average customer rating:

Best Sharepoint Developer Author
Finally the answers
Sharepoint Solutions for Advanced developers
still often need programming for integration

Advanced SharePoint Services Solutions (Books for Professionals by Professionals)
Scot P. Hillier
Manufacturer: Apress
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This book will cover advanced techniques for programming web parts and SharePoint Services. It will also cover advanced integration techniques with related products such as BizTalk Server 2004 and Content Server. Intended for advanced developers who already know all of the basic SharePoint Services, this book will aid them as they solve specific advanced problems.

Customer Reviews:

Best Sharepoint Developer Author.......2006-04-03

Scot Hillier is the best SharePoint author - period.

For example: developers need to write web parts. Web parts are custom controls. Can't view a custom control at design/development time, right? Need to install it into SharePoint, run it, test. Right?

Wrong! Scott shows you how to design, develop, and debug at design-time. This little tidbit alone is worth the price of the book.

All of his books will help you become the best SharePoint developer out there.

Finally the answers.......2005-11-07

Sharepoint is so confusing when you get into the backend and this book answered almost all of my questions. Best book I've found. You can tell the author spent a lot of time digging around in the guts of SP and was probably as frustrated as most of us are trying to figure out how to do the simplest of things. Small book, high price. WORTH IT.

Sharepoint Solutions for Advanced developers.......2005-05-07

"Advanced Sharepoint Services Solutions" is the second book by Scott Hiller, on Sharepoint Technologies. The first one was about building basic web parts. This book is for developers who have good knowledge of Sharepoint technologies. It is also assumed that you have already built some web parts and also have good understanding of .NET development. If you are looking for basic Sharepoint stuff, refer to his other book "Microsoft Sharepoint Building Office 2003 Solutions".

The Advanced book is not a complete reference on Sharepoint technologies. Instead it contains 8 chapters, which covers widely different areas. There are few chapters which are not covered by other Sharepoint books. This book is good source for CAML, Information Bridge Framework, Business Scorecard Accelerator, Sharepoint and BizTalk Integration, and for Sharepoint and Content Management Server Integration.
Since these topics are usually not covered in regular Sharepoint books, it becomes good source for these topics.

The book has good amount of source code (in C#) along with the text and provides some great ideas for system integrations. But as I said before it is not a complete reference book, just some great solutions for customizing and integrating Sharepoint technologies.

still often need programming for integration.......2005-02-22

Well, so Hillier's first book on SharePoint wasn't enough for some readers! Apparently, he found demand for explanations of broader, more advanced usages, that he furnishes here in this book.

Perhaps the more important of these are discussed in the second half of the book. Microsoft has developed several other intricate applications, independently of SharePoint. But consider how it integrated the various parts of its Office suite, so that you can easily go from Excel to PowerPoint, say. In similar wise, Hillier explains how SharePoint is compatible with Information Bridge Framework, Business Score Cards Accelerator, BizTalk Server 2004 and the Content Management Service. Granted, none of these is as successful and widespread as something like Excel. These packages are far more specialised and their usages might often involve some programming effort. Thus too, using SharePoint with them also necessitates programming.

Ok, there are parts where you might pass an XML data file to an application, where this file tells it much of what you want it to do. And the XML approach is declarative, not procedural, so it minimises your programming effort. But typically, there are places where you still need the latter.

My impression of what Hillier describes is that Microsoft is not done with further refining of this integration. There are simply too many low level programming steps to be currently dealt with. No fault of Hillier's, naturally. He's calling it as it is. But let us hope that Microsoft continues improving these products.

Average customer rating:

Not even for geeks.
Good book for sys admin alike
Took some thinking about configuration but works great
Less than I wanted
Doesn't cut down on the confusion

SpamAssassin
Alan Schwartz
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The annoyance factor for individual users whose email is crammed with pitches for pornography, absurd moneymaking schemes, and dubious health products is fierce. But for organizations, the cost of spam in lost productivity and burned bandwidth is astronomical. While society is grappling with a solution to the burgeoning crisis of spam proliferation, the pressure is on system administrators to find a solution to this massive problem in-house. And fast. Sys admins can field scores of complaints and spend months testing software suites that turn out to be too aggressive, too passive, or too complicated to setup only to discover that SpamAssassin (SA), the leading open source spam-fighting tool, is free, flexible, powerful, highly-regarded, and remarkably effective. The drawback? SpamAssassin's lack of published documentation. SpamAssassin by Alan Schwartz, is the only published resource devoted to SpamAssassin and how to integrate it effectively into your networks. This clear, concise guide clarifies the installation, configuration, and use of the SpamAssassin spam-checking system (versions 2.63 and 3.0) for Unix system administrators using the Postfix, Sendmail, Exim, or qmail mail servers, helping administrators make the right integration decision for their particular environments. It covers concrete advice on how to:

Customize SpamAssassin's rules, and even create new ones Train SpamAssassin's Bayesian classifier, a statistical engine for detecting spam, to optimize it for the sort of email that you typically receive
Block specific addresses, hosts, and domains using third-party blacklists like the one maintained by Spamcop.net.
Whitelist known good sources of email, so that messages from clients, coworkers, and friends aren't inadvertently lost.
Configure SpamAssassin to work with newer spam-filtering methods such as Hashcash (www.hashcash.org) and Sender Policy Framework (SPF).

Sys admins, network administrators, and ISPs pay for spam with hours of experimentation and tedious junk email management, frayed user tempers, and their sanity. SpamAssassin, together with this essential book, give you the tools you need to take back your organization's inboxes. "Detailed, accurate and informative--recommended for spam-filtering beginners and experts alike." --Justin Mason, SpamAssassin development team

Customer Reviews:

Not even for geeks........2005-07-06

Unless you're a PERL weenie and just love all the technical jargon and obscure set up code in this book -- forget it. This is just the book for such geeks, and not a book for your average PHP or Java programmer.

If you want to stop spam, rather than go back for an advanced degree in geekiness, (by which time all the spam techniques will have changed anyway) just let your ISP provider do their best. You won't be able to do much better with this book, even if you COULD implement it. Which the average reader never will.

Good book for sys admin alike.......2005-06-07

This is a book for anyone who wants to know what is under the hood. This books details what is behind the engine, its architecture and its learning system. While it is leaning more heavily in the mail transfer agent (MTA) side, it still offers a lot of tips to readers as to how one can use SpamAssassin to combat junk mail. The Autowhitelisting and Bayesian Filtering are a must for those who really want to know how to use the tool. This is what makes it different from other keyword based filtering. This would be a great book for those who run and maintain their own mailing server, because it has lots of details for sendmail, postfix, exim and qmail.
Although the author has a section on pop mail configuration, I would like to see more client configuration examples such as outlook express or Novell's evolution/Ximian, or kmail. This is because not everybody runs email server at home. Nonetheless, this is a great book for those who want to set up their own spam mail filters and get rid of those annoying junk mail. Additionally, the author provides a very detailed list of resources.

Took some thinking about configuration but works great.......2004-10-15

SpamAssassin is the immensely popular open-source spam solution for the Linux/Unix world. This book covers version 3.0, which, curiously enough, is not included with the book. This is pretty unusual in the open-source world since it costs very little to put a copy of the program onto CD and bind it into the book.

The reasons for SpamAssassin's popularity include its high level of customizability, the ability to change the rules and the weights assigned to those rules, automatically report spam to clearinghouses, ability to interface with other resources on the internet including DNS blacklists, ability to create a whitelist, and the ability to work with a wide variety of mail systems including sendmail, Postfix, qmail, and Exim. One of the really nice features is the ability for the system to automatically add a person to the whitelist if you send an outgoing email to that person.

Of course all of this requires an understanding of how SpamAssassin works and how to configure and tweak it to get it to do what you want. That is where this book comes in. The author has done an excellent job of explaining not only the concepts but also the details of how SpamAssassin works and how to tweak it to work best in your environment. This is easily one of the most clearly written and understandable books on configuring the software that I have read. SpamAssassin is highly recommended for anyone on a Unix-like system who is considering using the program as a spam control solution.

It took some time to figure out how to configure it best for my needs but my spam is down over 90% with no false positives. Don't expect the author to spoon feed you what is best for your system, but he gives you the information to design one that works for you.

Less than I wanted.......2004-09-24

I'm sure that the Spamassassin developers are doing the best they can, but the sad fact is that the spammers are winning the war.

I don't think there really is a good solution for spam right now. Blacklists don't work, Bayesian filters don't work - nothing works well enough to stop spam entirely.

Still, Spamassassin is useful, and because it is configurable (and open source), you at least have complete control. That assumes, of course, that you understand how it works. That's the reason to buy a book like this, but I was a bit disappointed in that area. I'm not sure yet whether the fault is Spamassassin - maybe it's just not as configurable as it should be - or this book just not explaining things very well.

For example, I note that an awful lot of the spam I get is from certain IP blocks. I don't want to block out large ranges arbitrarily, but I thought it might be interesting to increase the Spamassassin score if the sender was in one of those ranges.

Well, if there is a way to do that, I still haven't figured it out. It could be me - maybe I just haven't read things carefully enough - but I didn't feel that I understood Spamassassin after reading this. Maybe this needs to be a bigger book - only about 100 pages are devoted to configuration and modifying rules, the rest is installation advice.

On the other hand, there's nothing else out there, and this isn't totally without value. If you are using Spamassassin, you may want to pick this up - it could be a long wait for anything better.

Doesn't cut down on the confusion.......2004-09-07

Coming into Spamassassin as a new user is very confusing, especially if you don't admin e-mail systems frequently. The spamassassin wiki and documentation are really confusing as well, it seems that nothing really explains the system as a whole very well. Finally, a real book about Spamassassin (I thought). This book skipped over a lot of topics I want to know more about (logging spamassassin activity, how to install razor and pyzor, more information about the RBLs installation and configuration). I don't think so much time should have been spent on Baysean techniques, I find Baysean to be too labor intensive and not practical at all on a site-wide level (which I think the author mentions in the book). This book was good, but not as complete as I was expecting, but as a reference for Spamassassin I suppose it's ok, but not anything better than is online.

The Cold Fusion Web Database Construction Kit

Average customer rating:

Great book, but no customer services from MCP/QUE
A must for beginners and intermediate CF users alike
Still use this as a constant reference
The ONLY book I would recommend to get going quickly
A Great, But DATED book This is not 3.0 !!!!!!!!!!!

The Cold Fusion Web Database Construction Kit
Steven D. Drucker , David Watts , Leon Chalnick , David E. Crawford , Ronald E. Taylor , and Jack Leblond
Manufacturer: Que
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Que's Cold Fusion Web Database Construction Kit is your one-stop resource for creating applications on the Web! Using step-by-step instructions and examples, you'll walk through the entire process--from initial design to final roll-out--of creating a complete, Web-based application. With this powerful kit, you'll explore Web application design considerations and learn about some of the hottest topics, including dynamic Webs, personalized online services and active content. This kit includes a SQL and ODBC tutorial, as well as an HTML reference, and contains comprehensive coverage of Cold Fusion's database integration capabilities. In addition, this all-in-one kit features special sections on the new features in Cold Fusion--its integration with BackOffice and intranets, as well as its transaction dynamic email, Java graphlets, and new features in CFML.

Provides complete coverage of data manipulation, replication, validation, and security

Customer Reviews:

Great book, but no customer services from MCP/QUE.......1999-03-24

Great book if you want learn what is the Cold Fusion. However, I had an error when I installed the single version cold fusion that it come with the book. I called the MCP/QUE user support but cut me off with the phone messages. I emailed them but no response.

A must for beginners and intermediate CF users alike.......1999-02-23

Before I bought this book I had never heard of Cold Fusion (Except the Nuclear stuff in school). After using this book I had a database driven web site up in a week. If you are new to CF and do not have version 4.0, BUY IT! lots of great examples.

Still use this as a constant reference.......1998-12-25

I have had this book for about a year and a half and I still find myself returning to it again and again (Probably because my memory isn't what it used to be). Introduces web designers to database creation for dynamic web page generation. Great examples that show how easy it is to create web to database integration. Shows uses of javascript with Cold Fusion. If you can't wait for Cold Fusion 4.0 to come out, get this one!

The ONLY book I would recommend to get going quickly.......1998-10-30

I picked up this book not even knowing what Cold Fusion was capable of doing and within days I was writting code that could be used within our organization. The size may intimidate, but it covers every topic you need to know. My only complaint is the brief (and confusing) manner in which session variables are explained - an important topic if you need to develop secure web sites.

A Great, But DATED book This is not 3.0 !!!!!!!!!!!.......1998-03-04

I have had to make extensive use of some of the new 3.0 features. They are NOT covered here. This is the best organized & best written reference on the subject of Cold Fusion.Unfortunatley it is useless for 3.0 features, I had to use the online manual & the John Burke book to decipher them. To his credit he has not labeled the book 3.0, but he has not labeled it 2.0 either.

Average customer rating:

Outstanding instructional book on installing and using qmail
Great starter book for anyone
Qmail made much easier with this book
Excellent
Excellent Guide

The qmail Handbook
Dave Sill
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It covers everything from how email works, to how daemontools work, to how qmail works, gluing it all together, then showing you how to start adding features to it like spam control and remote access.

— Joe Topjian, Adminspotting.net

The qmail Handbook is designed to guide system and mail administrators of all skill levels through the installation, configuration, and maintenance of the qmail server. Author Dave Sill, a long-time qmail user, system administrator, and technical support agent (as well as the author of the popular online tutorial "Life with qmail"), provides you with the practical tools to work with this popular mail server.

Sill begins with a discussion of qmail's architecture and features, and then delves into a thorough investigation of the installation and configuration processes. You'll learn how to install qmail on several operating systems, and gain valuable insight into proper configuartion, testing procedures, and performance tuning. You'll also learn how to administer users and mail, install filters, and oversee daily qmail operation and maintenance. Throughout, Sill focuses on topics essential to all mail administrators, elaborating on such subjects as configuring mailing list managers, controlling spam, secure networking, scanning for viruses, hosting virtual domains and users, and creating dial-up clients.

The qmail Handbook is the ultimate resource for administrators and developers needing to master the functionality of this powerful software.

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The qmail Handbook is designed to guide system and mail administrators of all levels of experience through the installation, configuration, and maintenance of the qmail server. Dave Sill's background as a long-time qmail user, system administrator, and technical support agent gives him ability to address a wide audience. He also wrote "Life with qmail", a qmail guide published on the Web.

Sill's book guides the reader through every step of the process in setting up and running a qmail server. Assistance is provided for making the various decisions that must be made throughout the process. Advanced topics such as mailing list managers, controlling spam, mailbox services, secure networking, troubleshooting, and performance tuning are also covered. Sill also discusses qmail's features, history, and competition.

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Outstanding instructional book on installing and using qmail.......2006-02-08

My first edition copy of this book is dog-eared and full of bookmarks. This is an excellent tutorial on installing and using qmail. It includes step-by-step instructions for each task involved in setting up and administering (as well as customizing) qmail. Great text. Highly recommended. You don't need to be a Linux expert to install qmail if you follow this guidebook.

Great starter book for anyone.......2004-07-05

Dave Sill did an excellent job of showing how to setup email server. If you know some Linux commands, you'll have no problem setup your first Linux email server. I personally prefer Dave's Qmail handbook to John Levine's Qmail (I got as well). Levine's Qmail is an great second book.

Best Linux book I ever bought!

Qmail made much easier with this book.......2002-10-11

After a month, and hours of installing and reinstalling FreeBSD and Qmail, I finally got the mail server working right! This was my first attempt at a mail server which I use for my family members and a few friends. There are a few errors in the book in some of the scripts which did cause me many problems. That was a pain. But, even at that, I don't think I would have been able to get Qmail running without this book. It is a great book for a person like me who is always doing something a bit over my head.

Excellent.......2002-05-03

Everything you need to know about Qmail from installation and complete configuration. There is no other book.

Excellent Guide.......2002-02-27

I just finished setting up a mail server at home and this book really made it simple. I'm not a novice, so I can't speak to it's ease of use, but the steps were simple, and a bit verbose and repetitive, but overall the book was invaluable.

I also needed DNS and BIND to get everything working just the way I wanted, so I'd buy them both.

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For most users, e-mail is just another application on their computers. For developers, however, Internet e-mail involves a dizzying array of standards and formats. Programming Internet Email takes all of today's e-mail standards and puts them together in a readable form.

David Wood has compiled his knowledge of a broad array of topics to create this fine guide for both developers and the technologically curious. He explains what makes Internet e-mail work and then dives into the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME), Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME), Open Pretty Good Protocol (OpenPGP), and Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) standards. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), and vCard--the e-mail version of business cards--are also covered.

For each topic, the book simply explains its purpose and then presents its command usage with code examples. This discussion will be understood best by programmers, but the opening introductions easily reach those with more general expertise.

Beyond the basics, Wood presents the Java Mail API, antispamming techniques, attachment scrubbing, and Java-based IMAP mailbox monitoring.

While this book is a simple collection of separate technology discussions, it offers universal information on e-mail. Illustrative and filled with facts, this book will help you design your own e-mail client--or simply understand how one works. --Stephen W. Plain

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The Internet's "killer app" is not the World Wide Web or Push technologies: it is humble electronic mail. More people use email than any other Internet application. As the number of email users swells, and as email takes on an ever greater role in personal and business communication, Internet mail protocols have become not just an enabling technology for messaging, but a programming interface on top of which core applications are built. Programming Internet Email unmasks the Internet Mail System and shows how a loose federation of connected networks have combined to form the world's largest and most heavily trafficked message system. Programming Internet Email tames the Internet's most popular messaging service. For programmers building applications on top of email capabilities, and power users trying to get under the hood of their own email systems, Programming Internet Email stands out as an essential guide and reference book. In typical O'Reilly fashion, Programming Internet Email covers the topic with nineteen tightly written chapters and five useful appendixes. Following a thorough introduction to the Internet Mail System, the book is divided into five parts:

Part I covers email formats, from basic text messages to the guts of MIME. Secure email message formats (OpenPGP and S/MIME), mailbox formats and other commonly used formats are detailed in this reference section.
Part II describes Internet email protocols: SMTP and ESMTP, POP3 and IMAP4. Each protocol is covered in detail to expose the Internet Mail System's inner workings.
Part III provides a solid API reference for programmers working in Perl and Java. Class references are given for commonly used Perl modules that relate to email and the Java Mail API.
Part IV provides clear and concise examples of how to incorporate email capabilities into your applications. Examples are given in both Perl and Java.
Part V covers the future of email on the Internet. Means and methods for controlling spam email and newly proposed Internet mail protocols are discussed.
Appendixes to Programming Internet Email provide a host of explanatory information and useful references for the programmer and avid user alike, including a comprehensive list of Internet RFCs relating to email, MIME types and a list of email related URLs.

Programming Internet Email will answer all of your questions about mail and extend your abilities into this most popular messaging frontier.

Customer Reviews:

a good book for new mail admins.......2007-06-27

I wished it had gone into more depth, but it is a good book for beginning UNIX email administrators.

Good book for beginners..........2002-08-18

Bought this book to learn more about how email works so I could fight all the spam I am receiving. I did learn a lot about headers and how email works in general, but it didn't answer all my questions. Still, if you're looking for a general overview on email, this is a good book for the money.

What a technical book should be........2000-09-18

This book is an excellent introduction to e-mail programming and protocols. It is as easy to read as any novel, explains everything neatly and concisely, and provides excellent examples.

This covers what a mail server does and how it works, but really concentrates on mail client-server interaction. It goes into SMTP, ESMTP, MIME, POP3, IMAP, and vCard format. The examples are clear and concise, and it includes actual code in Perl and Java. This provides the reader with excellent, platform independent ways to do what they need to do.

The writing style is excellent. One of the most fluid technical books I've ever read. In fact, all I needed was one Sunday to read the book from front to back.

The code provided is superb. It's easy to use, easy to understand, and aides in the learning process. For me, the code is invaluable. It has personally saved me countless hours of work.

Finally, this book doesn't delve in tremendous detail. It tells the reader how to program for e-mail, but doesn't go into the RFC's as much as many people would like it to. I think, however, that this is a real strength. Many technical books bog the reader down with irrelevant information. This books avoids this, but still gives the user information on how to retrieve any additional information if needed.

Though there are not many e-mail programming books out there, this is by far the best one. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

This topic is absolute dynamite.......1999-12-03

Six months ago there were no books on how to program email using standard protocols. Now there are three! Kevin Johnson, John Rhoton and David Wood have all brought out excellent books on the subject. My only gripes with this book are that it has no sample code available and too many errors. If your budget is tight just get Rhoton's book and a copy of the RFCs, but if you are serious about this stuff you are going to need all three books as well as all the mail RFCs.

A good start.......1999-11-24

I liked this book but like the other reviewers have said it's not exactly heavy on programming. Still I thought it was a good companion to John Rothon's book Programmer's Guide to Internet Mail.

Programmer's Guide to Internet Mail (HP Technologies)

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Great explanation of how email works.
Superficial treatment
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Ideal for anyone new to computer network development

Programmer's Guide to Internet Mail (HP Technologies)
John Rhoton
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ASIN: 1555582125

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Programmer's Guide to Internet Mail will help you create and manage network applications using powerful Internet mail, directory, and domain name protocols and standards. It succinctly explains from a programmer's perspective not simply the primary Internet mail protocols but also how to use other important network protocols such as LDAP and DNS vital to the creation of message-enabled applications. Readers will learn how these protocols and standards facilitate message submission, delivery and retrieval, support directory lookup, how they interoperate, and how they together create a framework for sophisticated networked applications.

Programmer's Guide to Internet Mail will help you select the right protocol, or combination of protocols, for a specific programming function. Written by an expert e-mail and messaging consultant from Compaq, this insightful book is loaded with sample code you can use to begin and accelerate application development.

Master the primary Internet mail and directory protocols
Understand the interaction between Internet messaging clients and servers
Troubleshoot e-mail network problems

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This book is worth gold.......2006-09-30

I can just say thanks to author for writing this book. If we have more books like this we wouldn't have so much frustration in everyday life. The book title might confuse the people about content and use of the book. But I would say that this book is for everyone who wants to know how e-mail works. If you are not programmer than just skip the code and read everything in between. The book is so good that even without that code part it would be still complete and excellent guide how e-mail works.

Great explanation of how email works........2004-08-09

I bought this because I wanted to understand how email gets routed around the internet using DNS. This book accomplished that. I found this book slightly better than David Wood's "Programming Internet Email" due to its coverage of DNS. However I'm glad I own both books.

I feel that I could write SMTP servers and mail clients etc. after reading this. Lots of great example code (although it is all in VB not C).

This did a great job of explaining the topics and then refers you to the RFCs themselves if you need complete detail.

Superficial treatment.......2004-05-04

If you want to write a simple program that generates legal mail, then this might do the trick, but if you need to handle anything that is compliant with RFC821 or RFC822 or MIME, then you will be out of luck. You would be much better off with Internet Email Protocols: A Developers Guide by Kevin Johnson. See http://tinyurl.com/yvgra

Very good book.......2001-04-24

I bought this book because I am writing an SMTP server. While I already had most of the code written, I was looking for "nuances" and anything I may not have thought of. This book provided a few extra bits of information that were helpful.

If I were writing any kind of mail client, this would be the *perfect* book for that. While it does include rudimentary code for various servers, they're woefully incomplete (as they probably should be for this type of book) and require a bit of extra work if you want to use them in a production environment.

As for the book itself, it is very well written and very easy to read. The VB code examples are helpful and enhance the text explanations very well. Had this book included a CDROM with the code (instead of making you search the web for it) I would have given it 4.5 stars. Add to that better code examples and a better discussion on server applications and it would have been 5 stars.

Ideal for anyone new to computer network development.......2001-02-24

John Rhoton's Programmer's Guide To Internet Mail will enable the reader to master the primary Internet mail and directory protocols, understand the interaction between Internet messaging clients and servers, be able to troubleshoot their way through email network problems, learn to message-enable networked applications, gain a protocol-based Visual Basic code, and in general, learn to program with mail message formats RFC822 and MIME; message transfer protocols SMTP and DNS, post office protocols POP3 and IMAP, directory protocols ASN and LDAP, as well as other leading protocols. Programmer's Guide To Internet Mail is ideal for anyone new to computer network development and administration.

Take Back Your Life!: Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to Get Organized and Stay Organized (Inside Out) (Inside Out)

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Finally an approach that ties it all together!
Show me how to fish instead of talking about fishing
A waste of time and money
Blatent Copy of David Allen
Changed my entire life !

Take Back Your Life!: Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to Get Organized and Stay Organized (Inside Out) (Inside Out)
Sally McGhee
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If you re bogged down by unrelenting e-mail messages, conflicting commitments, and endless interruptions, it s not too late to reclaim control of your workday and take back your life! By applying the same time management and productivity techniques used by leading companies, you can better manage all of your communications, action items, and interactions. In this book, productivity expert Sally McGhee shows you how to take control and reclaim something you thought you had lost forever: your work-life balance. Now you can benefit from Sally s popular and highly regarded corporate education programs, learning simple but powerful techniques for rebalancing your personal and professional commitments by using the latest productivity features in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. Learn the proven methods that empower you to clear away distractions and loose ends and focus on what s really important to you and your business. You will discover what defines, and what limits, your personal productivity and learn how to create your own management system. Examine how you collect and store information, process and organize your e-mail messages for efficiency, and plan and prioritize with the calendar features in Office Outlook 2007. Learn what thousands of people worldwide have discovered about taking control of their everyday productivity, and start transforming your own life today! Includes a tear-out poster of the proven McGhee Productivity Solutions Workflow Model suitable for keeping right next to your desk.

Helps you understand what defines, and what limits, your personal productivity

Demonstrates how to make Office Outlook 2007 part of an effective and highly personalized system for managing the constant stream of information that flows across your desktop

Delivers the same powerful personal organization techniques from a popular corporate training class taught in some of the world s most successful companies

Offers an engaging, easy-to-read style for users of all levels

Applies concepts and models from the fields of behavioral psychology and education

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Finally an approach that ties it all together!.......2007-10-02

I've read them all: Getting Things Done, Seven Habits, Total Workday Control... What sets this book apart is the combination of modern theory and practical application. Finally there's an approach that shows both what AND how. I'm on Outlook 2007, and this is the best book I've found for tieing personal and professional goals, objectives, projects and loose ends all together into one elegant and powerful system. I'm more in control and more productive than ever - and finding more time to spend with my family everyday, too!

Show me how to fish instead of talking about fishing.......2007-10-02

As you may know, Sally McGhee and David Allen developed the productivity concepts together, and she decided to adapt it to Microsoft's Outlook. I'm very familiar with both David Allen's and Sally McGhee's work (having seen them both in person) and the main difference and value that I see in "Take Back Your Life!" is that instead of TALKING about what is productive, TBYL actually SHOWS YOU HOW TO USE OUTLOOK--it's akin to the difference between someone TALKING about the different ways you can go fishing (Deep-sea, fly-, bottom-, spear-) and someone ACTUALLY SHOWING YOU HOW TO USE YOUR Fishing Pole (Outlook in this case).

A waste of time and money.......2007-09-21

After reading Total Workday Control Using Microsoft Outlook: The Eight Best Practices of Task and E-Mail Management and then reading this (I bought both together as a Amazon "Better Together" package) I have come to conclude that this book "Take Back Your Life Using MS Office Outlook 2007" is a waste of time and money.

It is one of the few books I have purchased (out of the 20-30 per year), read (actually skimmed, it was so blah in less than 45 minutes) and then chucked it straight into the trash.

Do not waste your time or money.

Buy Linenberger's book instead. I spent much more time with his book and fully implemented his super-elegant system and now have a empty inbox and all my tasks & projects in Outlook in a fantastic, actionable way.

I only bought this book because I thought it would add value to his system, which came highly recommended. I was wrong.

Blatent Copy of David Allen .......2007-09-16

Pages and pages of blah, blah, blah. So ironic that this book is about productivity!?!?!

And all the core advise is a copy of the succinct advise available in David Allen's "Getting Things Done" (which is a good book).

I bought "Take Back Your Life" to help implement "Getting THings Done" into MS-Outlook. Waste of productivity. I now download David Allen's add-in to MS-Outlook (available at [...]) and it does everything required, fast and easy.

Changed my entire life !.......2007-06-22

Amazing book ! This book was responsable to increase my productivity. This book will guide you to have a balanced work and life balance.

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