Comments on: Ebook: Introducing Fully-Featured Postfix Mail Server Setup Guide for Linux

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 05:48:23 +0000

In reply to Arrey.

@Arrey,

The book is not updated for the last 2 years, and we don’t have any video courses for the same…

By: Arrey

Arrey — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 16:18:33 +0000

Has this book been updated? Also, will you guys consider making video courses as opposed to ebooks?

Thank you.

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Sat, 25 May 2019 06:11:09 +0000

In reply to Don Thompson.

@Don,

Thanks for review, we will correct all those errors you mentioned and also we will update the book with latest instructions..

By: Don Thompson

Don Thompson — Fri, 24 May 2019 21:04:37 +0000

Jaysen is correct – the watermarks are annoying at best. Not really fair for a book that’s been purchased.

But… far more annoying are several mistakes which the authors and experienced user may think trivial, but remember… If I had been using the system since I built my first working one about 15 years ago, I would not need to buy a book.

Page 14:
dovecot unix – n n – – pipe
flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient}
“deliver” should be “dovecot-lda”

When examples of success are given, there should also be examples of failure with “what was done wrong” explanations. For example, using “telnet localhost 110” in my instance does not seem to really connect and it keeps saying: “OK waiting for authentication process to respond..”
and does nothing.

While providing set up information for Thunderbird might have been nice before Thunderbird functionally imploded (at lease for myself and my users) now how about a few more examples, for example Outlook and Gmail.

An e-book that costs as much as a hard copy should be more complete. Perhaps I will re-review it if I ever get it working.

Page 14: the line “systemctl postfix restart” no longer works (if it ever did) and should be “systemctl restart postfix”.

By: Jaysen Johnson

Jaysen Johnson — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 04:29:05 +0000

A couple of things. Please remove the watermarks on the pages of the purchased ebook. It makes it difficult to read and when I purchase something I do not want to be staring at watermarks on every page. My eyes are drawn to them instead of the actual content.

I would normally ask for a refund for this but since I enjoy your website and find it highly useful in both my personal and work tasks and projects. I will not be asking for one. I am still happy to support your hard work and documentation. Thank You!

Also, I have a similar mail server setup that uses PostFixAdmin web GUI to add email accounts rather than phpMyAdmin. I think the book can use some update to include the use of PostFixAdmin. It’s more user friendly than phpMyAdmin.

http://postfixadmin.sourceforge.net/