Sendmail
by Bryan Costales, Claus Assmann, George Jansen, Gregory Shapiro · first published 2007
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Computer books change over time, for obvious reasons. The O'Reilly animal books are always good, but they've removed some useful information in later editions. For instance, the [sendmail bat book](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/sendmail-4th-edition/97...) originally talked about all sorts of ways to deal with resource limits, particularly memory, because this was often an issue…
on “Older editions of which books were better than the new ones? (2010)” ↗How many greybeards here remember the O'reilly Sendmail bat book[1]? I built an ISP off of deciphering cryptic sendmail.cf parameters from it. This is what the "fix" in Postfix aims to "fix". (Although the Postfix config files are no walk in the park either.)…
on “Why Postfix is called Postfix and IBM secure mailer” ↗