Programmer's Guide to Internet Mail: SMTP, POP, IMAP, and LDAP (HP Technologies) [Paperback]

John Rhoton (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1555582125 | ISBN-13: 978-1555582128 | Publication Date: October 22, 1999 | Edition: 1

Programmer's Guide to Internet Mail will help you create and manage network applications using powerful Internet mail, directory, and domain name protocols and standards. It succinctly explains from a programmer's perspective not simply the primary Internet mail protocols but also how to use other important network protocols such as LDAP and DNS vital to the creation of message-enabled applications. Readers will learn how these protocols and standards facilitate message submission, delivery and retrieval, support directory lookup, how they interoperate, and how they together create a framework for sophisticated networked applications.

Programmer's Guide to Internet Mail will help you select the right protocol, or combination of protocols, for a specific programming function. Written by an expert e-mail and messaging consultant from Compaq, this insightful book is loaded with sample code you can use to begin and accelerate application development.

Master the primary Internet mail and directory protocols
Understand the interaction between Internet messaging clients and servers
Troubleshoot e-mail network problems

Editorial Reviews

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I am often asked by my students in those [telecommunications] classes where they can research the details of e-mail protocals and processing and I have found that your text provided excellent coverage of the topic.
-Bernard Schmidt
Northern Virginia Community College

From the Publisher

Programmer's Guide to Internet Mail will help you select the right protocol, or combination of protocols, for a specific programming function. Written by an expert e-mail and messaging consultant from Compaq, this insightful book is loaded with sample code you can use to begin and accelerate application development.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 291 pages
• Publisher: Digital Press; 1 edition (October 22, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555582125
• ISBN-13: 978-1555582128
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #933,302 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John Rhoton is a strategy consultant who advises global enterprise customers on emerging technologies with a current focus on public, private and hybrid cloud computing. He speaks regularly on technology and strategy and is the author of five books including Cloud Computing Explained, currently ranked among the most popular books on the topic.

His tenure in the IT industry spans over twenty-five years at HP, EDS, Compaq and Digital where he has held leading roles in defining and implementing business and technology strategy both internally and for many of the largest clients.

John has been responsible for driving the adoption of several emerging technologies including cloud computing, mobility, next-generation-networking and virtualization. Over his career, he has covered a range of activities from software engineering and enterprise architecture to business development and global infrastructure deployment.

After living in a dozen countries, including long-term assignments to the United States, France, Italy, Ireland, Hong Kong and Malaysia, he has settled with his family near Vienna, Austria. In addition to English, John is fluent in German, Spanish, French and Italian.

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good book, April 23, 2001

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"webgeekinc" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Programmer's Guide to Internet Mail: SMTP, POP, IMAP, and LDAP (HP Technologies) (Paperback)

I bought this book because I am writing an SMTP server. While I already had most of the code written, I was looking for "nuances" and anything I may not have thought of. This book provided a few extra bits of information that were helpful.

If I were writing any kind of mail client, this would be the *perfect* book for that. While it does include rudimentary code for various servers, they're woefully incomplete (as they probably should be for this type of book) and require a bit of extra work if you want to use them in a production environment.

As for the book itself, it is very well written and very easy to read. The VB code examples are helpful and enhance the text explanations very well. Had this book included a CDROM with the code (instead of making you search the web for it) I would have given it 4.5 stars. Add to that better code examples and a better discussion on server applications and it would have been 5 stars.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book, January 5, 2000

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Manuel Torres (panama) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Programmer's Guide to Internet Mail: SMTP, POP, IMAP, and LDAP (HP Technologies) (Paperback)

The book is simply wonderful. It cover all theory about email and should always be at the side of any professional who really need to understand the technology behind products

Furthermore to good descriptions of smtp, mime, pop3 and imap, this book contain the best explanations of asn.1 and ldap that I am able to find.

It also include extremely useful examples and downloadable code. Using the programers toolkit of internet mail (ptim) I can examined and analyzed other protocols from ftp & http to snmp.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good explanations, poor choice of programming language!, December 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Programmer's Guide to Internet Mail: SMTP, POP, IMAP, and LDAP (HP Technologies) (Paperback)

I read John Rhoton's earlier book on X400 and SMTP and was happy to find out he wrote a book putting the first one into practice. The illustrations are excellent. It is sad he chose to write them all in Visual Basic. It tarnishes the neutral image and lets the Microsoft bias show through.