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Date:      Tue, 6 Sep 2005 12:04:42 -0800
From:      Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com>
To:        Yance Kowara <yance_kowara@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD howto collection
Message-ID:  <200509061204.57264.akbeech@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050906101228.78411.qmail@web30306.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References:  <20050906101228.78411.qmail@web30306.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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On Tuesday 06 September 2005 02:12 am, Yance Kowara wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I am looking for a good article or collection of
> > > howtos or something similar to Ted's FreeBSD
> >
> > Corporate
> >
> > > Networker's Guide.
> > >
> > > A book similar to Carla Schroder's Linux Cookbook
>
> (http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/?XmlId=3D0596006403)
>
> > > is very nice and practical to follow.
> > >
> > > I am given a task to design a small business
> >
> > network
> >
> > > solution using FreeBSD. It needs a gateway,
> >
> > firewall,
> >
> > > mail, proxy server, etc.
> > >
> > > What is available (what I can find) are different
> > > howtos implemented in different situations.
> > >
> > > Any pointers appreciated.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > >
> > > Yance Kowara
> >
> > I found "The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey"
> > invaluable when I was starting
> > out in FreeBSD. Also the OReilly book "Building
> > Internet Firewalls" was very
> > helpful.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Beech
>
> I have those books. I was hoping there is a FreeBSD
> book that includes the installation of other mail/dns
> servers like DJBDNS/qmail/postfix etc.
>
> I am wondering why we get a lot more varieties on
> Linux  solutions compared to FreeBSD. Are there more
> Linux gurus than FreeBSD gurus out there or are people
> just not interested in writing anymore?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Yance
>
There are some excellent FAQs and how-to's at http://www.postfix.org. If=20
postfix is installed from the ports it is fairly trivial to set up. The=20
respective add-on programs (like spam assassin) have very good documentatio=
n.=20
There seems to be a new OReilly Postfix book, but I haven't read it so I=20
can't comment on how useful it is.=20

Beech

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