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Programming Internet Email (Hardcover)

by David Wood (Author)

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Hardcover: 378 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (1 Aug 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1565924797
ISBN-13: 978-1565924796
Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 16.5 x 0.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Measured by the number of transactions, e-mail remains the Internet's most-used function. It's also becoming more flexible and is being incorporated into more apps. This makes David Wood's Programming Internet Email a timely addition to any programmer's shelf.

The book begins with an overview of the SMTP Net e-mail standard and a description of the Net's email architecture. This includes an overview of how Internet mail gateways enable intercommunication with proprietary mail systems. Everything discussed is referred back to the relevant RFCs.

By chapter three you've learned about header formats and discussed the MIME format. Then it's on to security, vCards, authentication and mailbox formats. POP is followed by IMAP and the newer ACAP. Chapter 14 goes further into the Java mail API than anyone should go without safety equipment then in Chapter 15 you finally get to write some code--a Perl replacement for /bin/mail which talks MIME so it can send logs. This is followed by a Java monitor for IMAP and POP mailboxes to replace biff (which tells you mail is waiting). It's unusually useful material for this type of book.

David Wood's spare style imparts information efficiently yet readably. Any enquiring Net user will find 75 per cent of it interesting, and all programmers using the Net should read the rest. --Steve Patient

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'After all the books for users, it's a relief to read David Wood's Programming Internet Email. The text is in the best O'Reilly tradition: concise, technical and free from gush. ' UNIXNT, September 2001 'What can I conclude about this book? It's thorough, that's for sure. It covers more email-related protocols and APIs than I knew about before I started to read this book. Although code snippets from chapter thirteen and later are in Perl and Java only, it wasn't hard to translate these to other languages. All in all, if you need to program some email-related functionality then this book will be a big help.' - Bob Swart, Developers Review, August 2000

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3.0 out of 5 stars More protocols than programming, definitely, 15 Jul 2001

By	F. Speirs (Greenock, Scotland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Despite the title, there's little useful programming advice in this book. If I was being particularly mean, I'd say it was a rehash of some RFCs and the JavaMail API spec.

It gives a decent overview of POP3, SMTP, IMAP and ACAP. The IMAP treatment is quite good, but this is nothing you couldn't get if you read the relevant RFCs a couple of times.

The code examples are OK, but of limited generality.

If you can spare the cash, buy it, but if you're looking for the one true path into mail programming, this isn't it.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Superb overall book, 10 Oct 1999

By	J. Hayward "james38856" (The Netherlands) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Reading this book I found out how easy it was to write your own mail clients to send and recieve email. It covers all the IP protocols (SMTP, POP3, IMAP etc.) you need to know about and gives plenty of references to other sources (e.g. relevant RFC's).

The only downside is that Micorsofts implementations of many of these protocols is weak so this book explains stuff I want to do but MS won't let me.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good on protocols, not so good on programming, 31 Mar 2001

By	C. C. Williams - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

As a guide to Internet mail protocols, this is a pretty decent book. The "programming" aspect is somewhat disappointing. There is too much of a UNIX emphasis, too much emphasis on using Perl (not many professional developers use Perl and anyway it's only really useful on a UNIX platform) and not enough material on the JavaMail API. In fact, the coverage of the JavaMail API is especially disappointing, amounting to little more than a list of classes and their methods (no explanation of what they do) with a handful of brief code samples.

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