Essential Email Standards: RFCs and Protocols Made Practical [Hardcover]

Pete Loshin (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471345970 | ISBN-13: 978-0471345978 | Publication Date: November 17, 1999

Complete coverage and analysis of official email standards and protocols Essential Email Standards The Internet Standards Series provides analysis of the latest RFCs (Request for Comments) and guidance on their potential use. It is a convenient source that categorizes the standards, summarizes the important ones, and shows you where to look for all the details. Each book includes a step-by-step action plan for integrating the right standard to the right application. Finding and addressing the Internet email standards that are critical to your network can be very difficult, especially considering that there are over 2,600 RFCs to search through. In this book/CD-ROM set, Pete Loshin conveniently organizes and analyzes the RFCs that are relevant to Internet messaging applications and protocols. With its accessible approach to standards, you'll gain a better understanding of what email functions are, how they work, and what is necessary for Internet email applications. Loshin also provides:
* A comprehensive introduction to Internet standards for email and Internet messaging
* The process of turning a proposed specification into a full Internet standard
* Tips and techniques to find the exact RFC that you need
* Lists of Web sites that contain additional information about RFCs and Internet standards
* Up-to-date email protocol information
* Discussions of key foundational email protocols and applications
The CD-ROM contains a fully searchable, digital edition of the book in PDF format. Click on the embedded hyperlinks to conveniently access each and every RFC or protocol referenced in the text directly from the rfc-editor.org site. A copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader is also included. The companion Web site at www.Internet-Standard.com features:
* The latest information about Internet standards
* Additional news related to standards
* Updates
Look for these other titles in the Internet Standards Series: Essential ATM Standards: RFCs and Protocols Made Practical Essential Ethernet Standards: RFCs and Protocols Made Practical

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"Pete Loshin conveniently organises and analyses the RFC's that are relevant to Internet messaing applications and protocols".(Computer Books Review)

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Complete coverage and analysis of official email standards and protocols Essential Email Standards The Internet Standards Series provides analysis of the latest RFCs (Request for Comments) and guidance on their potential use. It is a convenient source that categorizes the standards, summarizes the important ones, and shows you where to look for all the details. Each book includes a step-by-step action plan for integrating the right standard to the right application. Finding and addressing the Internet email standards that are critical to your network can be very difficult, especially considering that there are over 2,600 RFCs to search through. In this book/CD-ROM set, Pete Loshin conveniently organizes and analyzes the RFCs that are relevant to Internet messaging applications and protocols. With its accessible approach to standards, you'll gain a better understanding of what email functions are, how they work, and what is necessary for Internet email applications. Loshin also provides:
* A comprehensive introduction to Internet standards for email and Internet messaging
* The process of turning a proposed specification into a full Internet standard
* Tips and techniques to find the exact RFC that you need
* Lists of Web sites that contain additional information about RFCs and Internet standards
* Up-to-date email protocol information
* Discussions of key foundational email protocols and applications
The CD-ROM contains a fully searchable, digital edition of the book in PDF format. Click on the embedded hyperlinks to conveniently access each and every RFC or protocol referenced in the text directly from the rfc-editor.org site. A copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader is also included. The companion Web site at www.Internet-Standard.com features:
* The latest information about Internet standards
* Additional news related to standards
* Updates
Look for these other titles in the Internet Standards Series: Essential ATM Standards: RFCs and Protocols Made Practical Essential Ethernet Standards: RFCs and Protocols Made Practical

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 339 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (November 17, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471345970
• ISBN-13: 978-0471345978
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 7.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,435,770 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Email Standards: RFCs and Protocols Made Practical, March 3, 2000

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This review is from: Essential Email Standards: RFCs and Protocols Made Practical (Hardcover)

Although Essential Email Standards is intended for the Internet messaging technician, even non-techies like myself can benefit from its exhaustive and comprehensive coverage of all the major Internet protocols and RFCs. Loshin provides the latest information on all the Internet messaging standards, as well as a complete description of the standards making process.

The book is also extremely well organized and laid out, with plenty of diagrams, tables, sidebars, and notes. The only disappointing aspect of the book is the skimpy index at the end. Perhaps this is the publisher's way of encouraging readers to use the CD-ROM and Adobe PDF Reader supplied with the book.

Indeed, searching for key words and phrases with the Adobe Reader is a breeze--you just slide the CD-ROM into your computer, double click the installation file, and away you go. I found one of the RFCs I was looking for by simply clicking one of the hyperlinks embedded in the digital copy of the text.

This review concludes that Essential Email Standards succeeds in making highly technical email standards practical and easily accessible.