X.400 and SMTP: Battle of the E-mail Protocols [Paperback]

John Rhoton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 19, 1997

X.400 and X.500: An Introduction is aimed at those with current or planned involvement in the management of X.400, including messaging managers, system or network planners, and software developers. This book provides background knowledge of mailing systems and functionality as well as a grasp of how the underlying network operates. It explains the terminology and concepts of the standards. Because the standards are very abstract, John Rhoton has illustrated them with an overview of MAILbus 400 and Digital X.500, which are thorough and faithful implementations of the standards.



· Overview of MAILbus 400 as explanation of X.400 standards
· Provides introductory material for those switching from Message Router to MAILbus 400

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About the Author

John Rhoton is currently a Principal Member of Technical Staff in Hewlett Packard's Consulting and Integration practice. He also has many years of experience as a Technology Consultant and Solution Architect in Compaq's Emerging Technologies and Applied Microsoft Technologies Groups, with a special interest in messaging systems. His other Digital Press books include The Wireless Internet Explained (2002), X.400 and SMTP: Battle of the E-mail Protocols (1997) and Programmer's Guide to Internet Mail (2000).

Product Details

• Paperback: 207 pages
• Publisher: Digital Press (September 19, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155558165X
• ISBN-13: 978-1555581657
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,152,633 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.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good overview, no good for developers., March 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: X.400 and SMTP: Battle of the E-mail Protocols (Paperback)

Nice overview of protocols and good descriptions of basic concepts. Not useful for application developers.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Explains the foundation of internet email, February 6, 2000

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Sally Colman - See all my reviews

This review is from: X.400 and SMTP: Battle of the E-mail Protocols (Paperback)

My interest in buying this book was to get a better understanding of Internet email systems. X.400 is obsolete if it ever lived at all. What amazed me is how the development of X.400 and SMTP went hand in hand. Or put another way how SMTP and the other mail protocols are modeled on X.400.

This book gave me a greater appreciation for the work that went into designing today's email systems. Anyone who wants to consider themselves an email expert needs to understand the heritage to fully understand why email is the way it is.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good theory, January 5, 2000

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Manuel Torres (panama) - See all my reviews

This review is from: X.400 and SMTP: Battle of the E-mail Protocols (Paperback)

Like other review says, this book is very much theory. For practise you must read the new book from john rhoton.