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Six months ago there were no books on how to program email using standard protocols.Now there are three!Kevin Johnson, John Rhoton and David Wood have all brought out excellent books on the subject.My only gripes withthis book are that it has no sample code available and too many errors. Ifyour budget is tight just get Rhoton's bookand a copy of the RFCs, but ifyou are serious about this stuff you are going to need all three books aswell as all the mail RFCs.

This book is an excellent introduction to e-mail programming andprotocols.It is as easy to read as any novel, explains everything neatlyand concisely, and provides excellent examples.

This covers what a mailserver does and how it works, but really concentrates on mail client-serverinteraction.It goes into SMTP, ESMTP, MIME, POP3, IMAP, and vCard format.The examples are clear and concise, and it includes actual code in Perland Java.This provides the reader with excellent, platform independentways to do what they need to do.

The writing style is excellent.One ofthe most fluid technical books I've ever read.In fact, all I needed wasone Sunday to read the book from front to back.

The code provided issuperb.It's easy to use, easy to understand, and aides in the learningprocess.For me, the code is invaluable.It has personally saved mecountless hours of work.

Finally, this book doesn't delve in tremendousdetail.It tells the reader how to program for e-mail, but doesn't go intothe RFC's as much as many people would like it to.I think, however, thatthis is a real strength.Many technical books bog the reader down withirrelevant information.This books avoids this, but still gives the userinformation on how to retrieve any additional information ifneeded.

Though there are not many e-mail programming books out there,this is by far the best one.I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

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I liked this book but like the other reviewers have said it's not exactly heavy on programming.Still I thought it was a good companion to John Rothon's book Programmer's Guide to Internet Mail.

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The previous reviewer hit it right on the head.This book is very light on programming.Don't expect to build an email client by copying and modifying examples out of the book.But it does a good job on explainingthe various mail protocols.I appreciated it on that level because bookson internet protocols are rare.

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I wished it had gone into more depth, but it is a good book for beginning UNIX email administrators.