Magnus,
I had a chance to stop by the book store the other day.. I picked the
book up and scanned the first couple of chapters and put the book back in
the kids coloring book section.
Sean
----- Original Message -----
From: Magnus Bodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: qmail list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 2:43 AM
Subject: "Running qmail" - by Richard Blum
>
>
> Short review:
>
> It may work as a thicker replacement for Adam McKennas (no offense Adam!)
> qmail-HOWTO.
>
> It basically is a book that let's you set up a FreeBSD-box with qmail.
> It's title should therefore have been
> "Installation description for FreeBSD/qmail MTA".
>
> It does NOT meet the "life-with-qmail" (by Dave Sill) standard.
>
> * It tries to cover to much. Yes, there are interesting with a
DNS-chapter,
> but please skip trivial things and focus on MAIL things. As an example;
> I found no mention of the very common CNAME configuration error. What had
> been good
>
> * It is too FreeBSD-centric. It includes comments for Linux but is way to
> much NON-generic.
>
> * Things are in wrong order. First an installation description without
> daemontools. Then a daemontools chapter first after a strange chapter
about
> ezmlm.
>
> Whats good?
>
> It's quite hard to tell.
>
> * It covers daemontools 0.70. But not better than anyone else on the net
> including djb.
> * It covers dnscache (now djbdns). Really.
>
>
> Summary: DON'T BUY IT unless you just want a thick installation manual for
a
> FreeBSD-qmail-box.
>
> Use life-with-qmail and http://www.qmail.org/ instead.
>
>
> I'll come back with a REAL review next week.
>
> /magnus
>
> --
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