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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