Essential Email Standards: RFCs and Protocols Made Practical - Hardcover

Loshin, Pete

9780471345978: Essential Email Standards: RFCs and Protocols Made Practical

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471345970 ISBN 13: 9780471345978

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1897

Complete coverage and analysis of official email standards and protocols Essential Email Standards The Internet Standards Series provides analysis of the latest RFCs (Request for Comments) and guidance on their potential use. It is a convenient source that categorizes the standards, summarizes the important ones, and shows you where to look for all the details. Each book includes a step-by-step action plan for integrating the right standard to the right application. Finding and addressing the Internet email standards that are critical to your network can be very difficult, especially considering that there are over 2,600 RFCs to search through. In this book/CD-ROM set, Pete Loshin conveniently organizes and analyzes the RFCs that are relevant to Internet messaging applications and protocols. With its accessible approach to standards, you'll gain a better understanding of what email functions are, how they work, and what is necessary for Internet email applications. Loshin also provides:
* A comprehensive introduction to Internet standards for email and Internet messaging
* The process of turning a proposed specification into a full Internet standard
* Tips and techniques to find the exact RFC that you need
* Lists of Web sites that contain additional information about RFCs and Internet standards
* Up-to-date email protocol information
* Discussions of key foundational email protocols and applications
The CD-ROM contains a fully searchable, digital edition of the book in PDF format. Click on the embedded hyperlinks to conveniently access each and every RFC or protocol referenced in the text directly from the rfc-editor.org site. A copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader is also included. The companion Web site at www.Internet-Standard.com features:
* The latest information about Internet standards
* Additional news related to standards
* Updates
Look for these other titles in the Internet Standards Series: Essential ATM Standards: RFCs and Protocols Made Practical Essential Ethernet Standards: RFCs and Protocols Made Practical

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About the Author:

PETE LOSHIN is the author of twelve books on the Internet, networking, e-commerce, and security. He has worked as a TCP/IP engineer at a Cambridge, Massachusetts research lab, and was a technical editor for Byte. His byline has appeared in industry magazines including PC Magazine, PC World, Data Communications, PC Today, Information Security, Telecommunications, and many others.

Review:

"Pete Loshin conveniently organises and analyses the RFC's that are relevant to Internet messaing applications and protocols". (Computer Books Review)

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