dovecot - Mar 2010 - A dovecot book ?

Hi all

I am using dovecot at home for privat use and i found a lot of 
documentation here on the web. But you know, i am an old fashion guy and 
i like books. Is there a book on the market that will help me with 
understanding dovecot more and the configuration options ?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

-- 
Regards,

Carsten Laun-De Lellis
Dipl.-Ing. Elektrotechnik
Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

Hauptstrasse 13
D-67705 Trippstadt

Phone: +49 (6306) 992140
Mobile: +49 (151) 27530865
email:   carsten.delellis at delellis.net

Carsten Laun-De Lellis put forth on 3/3/2010 4:09 AM:
> Hi all
> 
> I am using dovecot at home for privat use and i found a lot of
> documentation here on the web. But you know, i am an old fashion guy and
> i like books. Is there a book on the market that will help me with
> understanding dovecot more and the configuration options ?
This book apparently covers some of Dovecot:
http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Open-Source-Mail-Enterprise/dp/159059598X

It's geared toward building a complete mail server solution, so it's not
dedicated to Dovecot.  How much of Dovecot it covers I don't know, as
I've
not read it.

It was apparently published in Sept 2006, 3.5 years ago.  Standard caution
applies:  some/much of the technical information may now be incorrect as
things have changed in the software over the 4+ year period since the author
put pen to paper, so to speak.

This is the most recent book I could find that covers a little bit of
Dovecot.  There doesn't appear to be a "Book of Dovecot".  Dovecot
is
covered a bit in The Book of Postfix, but it was published in 2005, so it
will be even farther out of date.

The book linked above may be worth the read for general architectural setup.

-- 
Stan

On Qua, 2010-03-03 at 11:09 +0100, Carsten Laun-De Lellis
wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I am using dovecot at home for privat use and i found a lot of 
> documentation here on the web. But you know, i am an old fashion guy and 
> i like books. Is there a book on the market that will help me with 
> understanding dovecot more and the configuration options ?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> 
I would rather have a dovecot devel book. What optimizations were made?
What libs were made from scratch and why? All the gory details. A la
Robert Love's Linux Kernel Development.

-- Jose Celestino SAPO.pt::Systems http://www.sapo.pt
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Am 03.03.2010 23:55, schrieb Curtis Maloney:
>  On 03/04/10 09:10, Noel Butler wrote:
>>  There is only one authoritative source who should be writing it if a
>>  book is to be written and we all know who that author should be.
>
>  I disagree.  In the time I've been watching/using Dovecot (since the
>  0.99 series) Timo has had many cases of improving Dovecot [even if
>  it's just a config option name] because of the points of view of other
>  people.
>
>  For many reasons, I thinks it would be better if someone else
>  [preferably someone with a long history with Dovecot, of course] were
>  to write the book, and Timo signed off on it.
>
>>  But for what version, as 1.x is in wide usage and will be for a long
>>  time, 2.0 is almost upon us,  much of 1.x is not applicable to 2.x ,
so
>>  should Timo be writing 2 books? One excessively big book?  Where is he
>>  to find time to write this whilst developing dovecot, and heaven
forbid,
>>  enjoy the outside world with a real life :)
>
>  Given a sizable portion of understanding Dovecot is understanding
>  email in general, I wonder just how much of the book would bifurcate
>  for covering the differing versions...
>
>  -- 
>  Curtis Maloney
Hi all

I have never thought on so many comments to my question and i am surely
surprised about the direction how this discussion went. I totally agree
with the one of you who mentioned the online documentation and the wiki.
I know that it exists and i used it for setting up my mail server, but
... as i said, i am old fashioned and i can better work with books. It's
just a personal preferrence.

Well, i also know that many developers are still working on dovecot,
especially Timo and that always new features, configuration options and
so on are added, but ... it's the same with other applications in the
community (e.g. postfix, apache, OpenLDAP, samba ....) and for all those
applications books are available, and that was the reason, why i asked
for a book. And to be honest. When i go thru the documentation part,
most of the documents were not changed for at least 6 months. I am sure
that between the writing and the publishing of a book new dovecot
features will be introduced and not covered in the book. But everyone
working with books knows that they can't be up to date, but they are a
real good basis for me to start with the fundamentals and then add this
information by new data from the web.

And guys just to mention one big advantage of a book is, you can read it
offline easily!!

But there is one thing i want to mention at this point. Even if you
agree with me about having a book or not. What i really like is the
discussion about and the chance to do so, because dovecot is opensource.
And for me this is in the end the result behind the idea of open source.
Everyone has the chance to contribute, either by code, by suggestions,
by comments .....

And that for me is more important than to have a book or not.

Thank you all for your comments.

Regards,

-- 

Mit freundlichem Gru?



Carsten Laun-De Lellis
Dipl.-Ing. Elektrotechnik
Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

Hauptstrasse 13
D-67705 Trippstadt

Phone: +49 (6306) 992140
Mobile: +49 (151) 27530865
email:   carsten.delellis at delellis.net