How to learn Mail Servers in 3 easy steps

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Hi All,

I need your advice. I have been told to go learn all about our Mail Systems at work, from the ground up. Ultimately the plan is for me to help implement a secure and scalable mail system for existing and future customers.

So what I'm asking is this. Can anyone recommend a text or resource that covers the subject in general, and is understandable to a relative novice. Also, I'd prefer it wasn't just a guide for one system (eg Exchange), as we currently use 3 seperate systems as follows:

1) Exchange (for Internal Mail)

2) Merak (Our older, outgoing system for clients' pop3 and webmail)

3) Surgemail (The main one, superceding the functions of Merak above)

Currently I'm working on developing an effictive anti-spam and abuse system based on Surgemail, but like I say, I want to take this role a lot further.

Any help, advice or suggestions from you Guys will, as usual, be gratefully received.

 

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Hey come on, you lot - I'm not giving this one up lightly.

PS. Forgot to mention, work are paying for whatever book I choose

 

well O'reilly made a good book on sendmail
i know your not really looking for specific application books but they should explain the genreal mail system pretty well, however mail in general really isnt that complex, its the systems themselves that are
exchange and sendmail are both piss easy to set up
but to optimize them and configure them to your exact requirements is a mission to say the least, they are both very powerful mail servers,

key here is
mail is simple conceptionaly
mail servers are behemoths

check some base documentation for sendmail/exchange and try go from there
also see if the system you use has decent training documentation