FW: O'Reilly Releases "Managing IMAP"

[Joel Meulenberg]

I want that book!  Now!

--- Brandon Gohsman <brandon at squareonedesign.com> wrote:
> Anyone interested in IMAP?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denise Olliffe [mailto:deniseo at oreilly.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 4:02 PM
> To: brandon at squareonedesign.com
> Subject: O'Reilly Releases "Managing IMAP"
> 
> For immediate release
> Review copies available
> Contact: Denise Olliffe
> (707) 829-0515 ext 339 or deniseo at oreilly.com
> 
> 
> IMAP EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AS USE OF MULTIPLE COMPUTERS INCREASES
> 
> 
> O'Reilly's latest release, "Managing IMAP" by Dianna Mullet & Kevin
> Mullet, is both a conceptual and mechanical IMAP (Internet Message
> Access Protocol) road map. IMAP is a method of accessing electronic
> mail or bulletin board messages that are kept on a (possibly shared)
> mail server. IMAP's ability to access messages (both new and saved)
> from more than one computer will become extremely important as
> reliance
> on electronic messaging and use of multiple computers increase.
> 
> "The popularity of the Internet exploded when gopher sites were
> replaced by the World Wide Web. As IMAP is embraced over the legacy
> POP3 email access protocol, electronic mail will experience a similar
> quantum leap in functionality, " says co-author Kevin Mullet.
> "Considering how important IMAP is to Internet email, we were
> surprised
> to find that there was nothing like our book on the market to walk
> system administrators through the process of moving from a legacy
> email
> system to a multi-function IMAP server, and the tricks for managing
> it
> once they got there."
> 
> The demand for email servers that take advantage of centralized
> resources to manage mail, rather than heap more tasks on end-user
> computers, has been answered by incorporating IMAP into virtually
> every
> major email server on the market. Consequently, IMAP deployment is
> expected to increase rapidly over the next three years. Managers,
> system integrators, and system administrators on the front lines of
> internet messaging will find "Managing IMAP" a valuable tool for IMAP
> system provision, maintenance and support. It is also useful to
> anyone
> considering IMAP for their messaging system.
> 
> "Now is an especially critical time for the email system
> administrator
> to have an excellent IMAP reference at her fingertips," explains
> Mullet.  "It's not enough to know that IMAP exists, or even to know
> what capabilities it delivers that legacy, monolithic and
> non-standardized mail systems do not. Some major email products claim
> to offer standards-compliant IMAP and do not. This book helps
> separate
> the wheat from the chaff, giving the system administrator or her
> manager the tools and information they need to evaluate products
> which
> purport to be standards-compliant IMAP servers."
> 
> The only book on the market devoted exclusively to IMAP, "Managing
> IMAP" covers the IMAP protocol, setting up a client, IMAP security,
> performance monitoring, and tools. Several chapters are devoted
> specifically to two of the most popular servers: the University of
> Washington server, and Cyrus, plus detailed appendixes cover topics
> such as TCL, procmail, Sieve, and sendmail.
> 
> "Kevin and Dianna Mullet have done an outstanding job of presenting
> practical information on how to install, configure, and manage an
> IMAP
> server system. Both major freeware server implementations are covered
> in detail. I am particularly impressed by how the Mullets have
> uncovered and fleshed out useful information from mailing list
> folklore
> or passing mention in documenting. A book like this has been needed
> for
> a long time. It belongs on every server administrator's
> bookshelf." --Mark Crispin, creator of IMAP, from the Foreword
> 
> 
> Chapter 9, Cyrus System Administration, is available free online at:
> http://www.ora.com/catalog/mimap/chapter/ch09.html
> 
> For more information about the book, including Table of Contents,
> index, author bio, and samples, see:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mimap/
> 
> For more information on IMAP, see The IMAP Connection at
> The University of Washington, at:
> http://www.imap.org/
> 
> For a cover graphic in jpeg format, go to:
> ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/graphics/book_covers/hi-res/059600012x.jpg
> 
> 
> # # #
> 
> 
> Managing IMAP
> By Dianna Mullet & Kevin Mullet
> 1st Edition September 2000
> 0-596-00012-X, 550 pages, $34.95
> order at oreilly.com
> 1-800-998-9938
> http://www.oreilly.com
> 


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