By David Wood
August 1999
Pages: 378
ISBN 10: 1-56592-479-7 |
ISBN 13: 9781565924796
(Average of 3 Customer Reviews)
Internet mail protocols have become not just an enabling technology for messaging, but a programming interface on top of which core applications are built. This book is an essential guide and reference for programmers building applications on top of email capabilities and for power users trying to get under the hood of their own email systems.
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The Internet's "killer app" is not the World Wide Web or Push technologies: it is humble electronic mail. More people use email than any other Internet application. As the number of email users swells, and as email takes on an ever greater role in personal and business communication, Internet mail protocols have become not just an enabling technology for messaging, but a programming interface on top of which core applications are built.
Programming Internet Email unmasks the Internet Mail System and shows how a loose federation of connected networks have combined to form the world's largest and most heavily trafficked message system.
Programming Internet Email tames the Internet's most popular messaging service. For programmers building applications on top of email capabilities, and power users trying to get under the hood of their own email systems, Programming Internet Email stands out as an essential guide and reference book. In typical O'Reilly fashion,
Programming Internet Email covers the topic with nineteen tightly written chapters and five useful appendixes.
Following a thorough introduction to the Internet Mail System, the book is divided into five parts:
Post-purchase benefits:
- Part I covers email formats, from basic text messages to the guts of MIME. Secure email message formats (OpenPGP and S/MIME), mailbox formats and other commonly used formats are detailed in this reference section.
- Part II describes Internet email protocols: SMTP and ESMTP, POP3 and IMAP4. Each protocol is covered in detail to expose the Internet Mail System's inner workings.
- Part III provides a solid API reference for programmers working in Perl and Java. Class references are given for commonly used Perl modules that relate to email and the Java Mail API.
- Part IV provides clear and concise examples of how to incorporate email capabilities into your applications. Examples are given in both Perl and Java.
- Part V covers the future of email on the Internet. Means and methods for controlling spam email and newly proposed Internet mail protocols are discussed.
- Appendixes to Programming Internet Email provide a host of explanatory information and useful references for the programmer and avid user alike, including a comprehensive list of Internet RFCs relating to email, MIME types and a list of email related URLs.
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Book details
First Edition: August 1999
ISBN: 1-56592-479-7
Pages: 378
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 3 Reviews)
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Programming Internet Email Review, November 11 2002
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Submitted by BigRat
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I found the book excellent. I wrote my own fetchMail and sendMail modules in a couple of days! It took all of the mystery out of mailing.
Programming Internet Email Review, April 10 2002
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Submitted by andysu
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i am from china,have read a chinese version. it is good for beginner.
Programming Internet Email Review, November 30 2000
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Submitted by John T. Willis
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Quite a good book actually.
I couldn't put it down the first time until I was halfway through it!
Be sure that you get a good nights sleep before you pick it up
though, some of the examples are recursive and could give
you a headache.
Next to the revelation of Eudora's extended X-header options
available only in its windows config file, and it's command line
abilitites to send mail without MAPI from scripts...
This book is darned near essential for understanding Email.
It moves from the the earliest simple co-operative defacto
text-only forms up through offical MIME and gives detailed
examples for the two MIME ecoding standards BASE64 and
Quoted printable.
And briefly dives in to Perl modules for generating and
manipulating it.
Years ago I bought the Bat Book for Sendmail hoping to
learn just what's covered specifically by this book.. this
was a more profitable purchase.
Programming Internet Email Review, August 30 1999
Submitted by Dallas E. Legan [Respond | View]
I'm greatly looking forward to this book
(Programming Internet Email). I've fiddled around
with writing email tools in various scripting
languages (kermit, batch, ksh, Rexx, Perl),
and this
looks like the perfect follow up to get even
deeper into understanding e-mail.
I might suggest that there be an appendix on
some of the earlier email standards for say, BBS's,
and that the book should some where, at least
mention the great ACCMAIL@listserv.aol.com mailing
list,which deals with accessing the Internet via
e-mail. Like I said, looking forward to it.
Regards, Dallas E. Legan II, leganii@surfree.com
dallasii@kincyb.com
Media reviews
"a good starting place for getting up-to-speed on Internet email programming." --Ron Burke, Windows Developer's Journal, April, 2001
