Peer Heinlein

Peer Heinlein

Peer Heinlein (born June 11, 1976 in Berlin ) is a specialist book author , Linux and security consultant and entrepreneur .

biography

School, studies and degrees

Heinlein attended the Georg-Herwegh-Gymnasium in Berlin until 1995 and then studied law at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He completed his studies in 2001 with the first state examination.

He is certified as a Linux administrator ( LPIC-2 ).

Author and editor

From November 1992 to June 1998 Heinlein was a volunteer at Junge Presse Berlin , including five years as 1st Chairman of the Management Board. From October 1998 to June 1999 he worked as an editor at Tagesspiegel in the local editorial office in Berlin / Brandenburg. In addition, he was responsible for the editorial and organizational aspects of the media project Klasse! . He published his first reference book in March 2002, followed by other books, some of which are considered standard work by Linux users. Since 2002 he has also been writing specialist articles in Linux-Magazin and IX, among others, and lecturing at conferences and congresses such as LinuxTag and Cebit .

Entrepreneurial background

Heinlein has been running the Internet provider JPBerlin since November 1992 . In January 1995 he founded a Linux consulting company (since 2004 GmbH ), into which JPBerlin was incorporated. The other business areas are a Linux academy with training courses and conferences for administrators as well as a range of appliances for everything to do with e-mail systems. The paid e-mail service mailbox.org has existed since February 2014 .

The company's clients include the federal government , the federal states , aid organizations and various German companies. Heinlein also provides some servers for the web portal and fundraising campaigns for Wikimedia Germany .

Publications (selection)

• Dovecot , POP3 / IMAP server for businesses and ISPs. 1st edition, Open Source Press, 2014, ISBN 978-3-95539-074-7
• Dovecot, POP3 / IMAP servers for enterprises and ISPs. 1st edition, Open Source Press, 2014, ISBN 978-3-95539-108-9
• LPIC-1. Prepare for the Linux Professional Institute exam. 5th edition, Open Source Press, 2013, ISBN 978-3-941841-82-6
• The Postfix book. Secure mail servers with Linux. 3rd edition, Open Source Press, 2008, ISBN 978-3-937514-50-5
• The Book of IMAP, Building a Mail Server with Courier and Cyrus, 1st edition, NoStarchPress, 2008, ISBN 978-1-59327-177-0
• POP3 and IMAP. Mail server with Courier and Cyrus. 1st edition, Open Source Press, 2007, ISBN 978-3-937514-11-6
• Snort, Acid and Co. Intrusion detection with Linux. 1st edition, Open Source Press, 2004, ISBN 978-3-937514-03-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Peer Heinlein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Overview of his professional articles in recent years
• Peer Heinlein on the website of the provider JPBerlin.de