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Summary: A very good and simple presentation...
Review: John Rhoton has taken an otherwise poorly understood set of protocols and explained them simply and sensibly. This is a great book to start anybody down the road of Internet mail.
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Summary: Ideal for anyone new to computer network development
Review: John Rhoton's Programmer's Guide To Internet Mail will enable the reader to master the primary Internet mail and directory protocols, understand the interaction between Internet messaging clients and servers, be able to troubleshoot their way through email network problems, learn to message-enable networked applications, gain a protocol-based Visual Basic code, and in general, learn to program with mail message formats RFC822 and MIME; message transfer protocols SMTP and DNS, post office protocols POP3 and IMAP, directory protocols ASN and LDAP, as well as other leading protocols. Programmer's Guide To Internet Mail is ideal for anyone new to computer network development and administration.
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Summary: Covers everything you need to know.
Review: The book covers the essentials and a lot more. The examples are a good place to start but it doesn't take long before you run up against their limitations. Just take them as examples.
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Summary: Best book
Review: 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.
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Summary: Book on the operation of the Internet Mail protocols
Review: This book describes how the Internet Mail protocols, including SMTP (using DNS for routing), POP, IMAP and LDAP work. It also explains some of the formats used (RFC822 and MIME for messages, ASN.1 for LDAP requests and responses). All of these are illustrated with Visual Basic / WinSock examples that can be downloaded from the web as part of the Programmer's Toolkit for Internet Mail. Enjoy reading - I hope it will be useful to you.
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Summary: Cool!
Review: This book gives a good description of how the mail protocols work. It is easy to follow and covers all the major topics. I found the downloadable examples extremely practical and have already used one to debug one mail related problem.
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Summary: Covers everything you need to know.
Review: Unlike other books which are padded with useless information this one cuts straight to the chase. It is concise but easy to read and it contains all you need to know to start writing mail applications. Sure, if you want to really go deep you will need to do some more research, like reading the RFCs. And you're probably going to want to use some programming language other than VB. But this book gets you started on the right track and tells you where to go to get more depth. The on-line examples (once you find them on download.com) are great and really help to give you a picture of what is going on. This is one of the most useful books I have bought.
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Summary: Good description of the foundations of mail
Review: Unlike other books which are padded with useless information this one cuts straight to the chase. It is concise but easy to read and it contains all you need to know to start writing mail applications. Sure, if you want to really go deep you will need to do some more research, like reading the RFCs. And you're probably going to want to use some programming language other than VB. But this book gets you started on the right track and tells you where to go to get more depth. The on-line examples (once you find them on download.com) are great and really help to give you a picture of what is going on. This is one of the most useful books I have bought.
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