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Programming Internet Email Mastering Internet Messaging Systems

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ISBN-10: 1565924797

ISBN-13: 9781565924796

Edition: 2nd 1999

Authors: David Wood, Mark Stone

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $34.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/24/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.81" wide x 9.61" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Preface
Electronic Mail on the Internet
Email Systems
Internet Email Standards
Tools of the Trade
The Basic Internet Email System
Simple Text Messages
Internet Text Messages
Think Globally, Act Locally
Headers
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
Mail with Attitude
MIME Header Fields
MIME Encoding
MIME Boundaries
MIME Summary
Creating MIME-Compliant Messages
The Minimal MIME Message
Multipart Messages
Nested Body Parts
A Few Interesting MIME Types
MIME Message Creation Gotchas
OpenPGP and S/MIME
An Extremely Brief Introduction to Security Concepts
An Overview of OpenPGP and S/MIME
Combining Security and MIME
The OpenPGP Format
The S/MIME Format
vCard
Personal Data Interchange with vCard
The vCard Version 3.0 Profile
The vCard Version 2.1 Profile
Attaching vCards to Email Messages
Mailbox Formats
mbox
MH
Maildir
Mailcap Files
Mailcap File Format
Implementation Under Unix Operating Systems
Implementation Under Other Operating Systems
The Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Using ESMTP
ESMTP Commands
ESMTP Sessions
The Post Office Protocol
Using POP
POP Commands
POP Sessions
The Internet Message Access Protocol
Using IMAP
IMAP Commands
IMAP Sessions
The Application Configuration Access Protocol
Using ACAP
ACAP Commands
ACAP Sessions
Email-Related Perl Modules
Finding and Installing Perl Modules
Maturity of the Mail-Related Modules
Email-Related Modules Quick Reference
The Java Mail API
An Overview of the Java Mail API
Java Mail API Reference
Creating and Sending a Multipart Mail Message
Designing a MIME-Capable Replacement for /bin/mail
Creating mail.pl
Extending and Enhancing mail.pl
Sending MIME Email via Java
Archiving and Cleaning a Mailbox
Scrubbing Unwanted MIME Attachments
Creating mboxscrub.pl
Extending and Enhancing mboxscrub.pl
Watching an IMAP Mailbox
Designing JBiff
Creating JBiff
Extending JBiff
Anti-Spamming Techniques
The UCE Problem
Recipient Approaches
Service Provider Approaches
Legislative Approaches
The Future of Email
Trends in MUAs
Trends with Web-based Mail
Trends Inside Firewalls
Internet RFCs Relating to Email
MIME Media Types
ASCII
Mail-Related URLs
Glossary
Index