Internet E-mail Protocols, Standards and Implementation (Artech House Telecommunications Library)

My initial complaint, which I realized within the first chapter, is that the author is *extremely* biased towards WinNT, not simply ignoring other platforms, but actually taking several pages to explain why they should all be ignored. He claims that Apple doesn't let programmers write compatible software and will sue those who try, and that the single newline character used on UNIX systems is an anachronism from when computers didn't have enough memory for the more correct CR LF sequence. (The first of which is clearly absurd and the second of which is directly contradictory to the universally accepted truth that CRLF is a holdover from teletype days.) This seems very strange since internet email is almost by definition a cross-platform (or even UNIX-specific) venture; and the newline comment is extremely worrying since this is a major issue in email which the author completely ignores.Even for NT-specific programming this book doesn't seem useful. The author includes incredibly rudimentary material (including a section on how binary works and what bits are) yet jumps straight to rather sophisticated constructs with no explanation of those construts at all: I fear neither novice users nor experienced programmers would like this book.The section on domain names consists of nothing more than instructions on configuring one specific WinNT DNS server. The protocol explanations include ridiculous side notes ("now is the time to clear your input buffers") which are clearly specific to the one product the authors claims to have written, yet not a single line of code appears in the book.This book could at best have a been a decent compilation of RFC's, but the protocols are not detailed completely and there are multiple blatant errors. Any time saved by using this book instead of scrounging the internet will be lost ten times over in debugging time.This is the first book I've ever returned to Amazon, and is the last one I will ever buy from this publisher.

I prefer the books from john rhoton but this book also include a very good description of theory of email. Very much content.

I'm a student so I want to looking for a technique a about JavaMail. If you can give me a book for free, I only use it for research. Thank you and look forward from you.

I had to implement a POP-3 mail client and this book saved my life.The material in the book is overly oriented towards NT and you have to take with a grain of salt its NT bias. Its technical content however is superb. The mail protocols it describes work on UNIX without change. The one thing you have to watch out for is the different circumstances under which NT and UNIX produce "\r".The well organized CD is in and of itself worth the price of the book. The book gave me a tutorial which explained what I needed to do. The CD gave me the details.I am an experienced programmer and I'm not sure this book will help beginners though for beginners it has very useful glossaries.