Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:54:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lisa Mann <lisam@oreilly.com>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: IMAP increasingly important

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE	
CONTACT: Lisa Mann
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IMAP Extremely Important as Use of Multiple Computers Increases


Sebastopol, CA--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


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Managing IMAP 
By Dianna Mullet & Kevin Mullet
1st Edition September 2000 
0-596-00012-X, 550 pages, $34.95 
order@oreilly.com
1-800-998-9938
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