Managing IMAP: Help for Email Administrators (Paperback)

Foreword
Preface

I. IMAP Fundamentals

1. The Internet Mail Model
What Is the Internet Mail Model?
Why Follow the Internet Mail Model?
Examples

2. What Is IMAP?
IMAP in a Nutshell
IMAP's Three Interaction Models
Why IMAP?
IMAP and POP: A Comparison
Present and Future of IMAP
Open Source Server Implementations
IMAP-Related Standards and Documents

3. Anatomy of an IMAP Session
IMAP Session Concepts
IMAP Components
An IMAP Session Play-by-Play

II. IMAP Mail User Agents (MUAs)

4. IMAP Clients
Client Features
PINE and PC PINE
Star Mail
Netscape Messenger
Outlook Express
Mulberry
Eudora
Other Clients

5. Web-Based IMAP Clients
What's a Web-Based IMAP Client?
Why Use a Web-Based IMAP Client?
Web IMAP Clients
IMP
Mailspinner
SilkyMail
EMU 3
WING

III. The Cyrus IMAP Server

6. Introduction to the Cyrus IMAP Server
History of Cyrus
Cyrus Concepts and Features
Cyrus Server Configuration
The Future of Cyrus
Strengths and Weaknesses of Cyrus
When Is Cyrus the Right Choice?

7. Installing the Cyrus IMAP Server
Software Prerequisites
Hardware Note
Where to Get the Software
Supported Platforms
Installing Cyrus
Upgrading from Previous Versions of Cyrus IMAP
Components of Cyrus and What They Do
Common Problems
Significant Bugs

8. Configuring the Cyrus Server
IMAP Configuration File and Directory
Configuring the Authentication Mechanism
Configuring syslog
Configuring the MTA
Getting Cyrus Up and Running
Testing Your Server

9. Cyrus System Administration
Cyrus System Administration with cyradm
Common Tasks
Batch Account Maintenance with cyradm
Shared Folders and Bulletin Boards
Mailstore Partitioning
Quota Maintenance
Disaster Recovery
Migration from Berkeley (Unix) Mailbox Format to Cyrus
Mail Forwarding and Filtering on a Black Box
Usenet Integration
Troubleshooting
Adding SSL Support to Cyrus

IV. The UW IMAP Server

10. Introduction to the UW IMAP Server
What Is UW IMAP?
UW's Strengths
UW's Limitations
UW IMAP Concepts
Does UW IMAP Match Your Needs?

11. Installing UW IMAP
Where Do You Get UW IMAP?
What Do You Get with UW IMAP?
How Do You Install It?
Where Can You Go for Help If You Get Stuck?

12. UW System Administration
General Issues
Authentication
Security
UW IMAP Utilities

V. Other Topics

13. Addressing IMAP Security
Security Resources
A Handful of Security Tips
Monitoring Security
Boiling It All Down

14. Running a Dedicated Server
What's a Dedicated Server?
Account Provisioning
Mission Restriction
The Ultimate in Dedicated Servers

15. Server-Side Mail Filtering
Why Filter on the Server?
Procmail
Sieve
To Filter or Not to Filter-

16. Server Performance Tuning
Platform
I/O Subsystem Tuning
Memory Tuning
Kernel and Network Driver Tuning
How to Know When It's Time to Scale Up
Running imapd: inetd Versus Standalone
Charting It Up for the Suits

17. Remote Configuration Storage
Why Store Client Configurations on a Server?
IMSP, ACAP, or LDAP?
IMSP
ACAP

18. IMAP Tools
IMAP Administration Tools
Authentication Tools
Monitoring and Testing Tools
IMAP Clustering
IMAP APIs

VI. Appendixes

A. Conversion from Berkeley Mail Format to Cyrus: Tools
B. Adding SSL Support to IMAP
C. IMAP Commands

Index