On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 11:19:11 +0100, Joost van Baal wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:08:03PM +0300, Mbarak M. Ittiso wrote:
>> my recommendation would be slightly different...download the relevant RFCs.
>> For SMTP try RFC 822...and you'd get an insight into SMTP.
>
>The RFC's are required to get a proper understanding; you're right.
>However, LWQ suggests these (as does the Mail-Administrator-HOWTO).
>I expected Christophe to know LWQ.
I am not a developer but a book I found to be very useful in interpreting RFCs and
letting me get a better
feel of how things work is:
Internet Email Protocols
(A developer's guide)
Kevin Johnson
Addison Wesley
ISBN 0-201-43288-9
$44.95 SRP USA
It comes with all the relevant RFCs on a CD - a rare case of a truly useful CD with a
book!
It does stress the need to keep abreast of any updates like new RFCs.
There is also source code for "several popular email packages" (I haven't looked at
them! and the CD is not
within reach)
HTH
In the beginning was The Word
and The Word was Content-type: text/plain
The Word of Rod.
