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

~ (Author) "To most people, E-mail is a mysterious application that takes their message and magically ensures it is delivered to someone else they have chosen..." (more)
Key Phrases: Private Sub, Public Const, Private Function (more...)

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. . .is ideal for anyone new to computer network development and administration.
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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

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Product Details

• Paperback: 291 pages
• Publisher: Digital Press; 1st 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: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #87,425 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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

By	"webgeekinc" (Port Charlotte, FL United States) - See all my reviews

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.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Manuel Torres (panama) - See all my reviews

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

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.