Programming Internet Email

Preface; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions Used in This Book; Resources; Related Books; We'd Like to Hear From You; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Electronic Mail on the Internet; 1.1 Email Systems; 1.2 Internet Email Standards; 1.3 Tools of the Trade; 1.4 The Basic Internet Email System; Chapter 2: Simple Text Messages; 2.1 Internet Text Messages; 2.2 Think Globally, Act Locally; 2.3 Headers; 2.4 Mandatory Headers; 2.5 User-Defined Headers; 2.6 Address Formats; Chapter 3: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions; 3.1 Mail with Attitude; 3.2 MIME Header Fields; 3.3 MIME Encoding; 3.4 MIME Boundaries; 3.5 MIME Summary; Chapter 4: Creating MIME-Compliant Messages; 4.1 The Minimal MIME Message; 4.2 Multipart Messages; 4.3 Nested Body Parts; 4.4 A Few Interesting MIME Types; 4.5 MIME Message Creation Gotchas; Chapter 5: OpenPGP and S/MIME; 5.1 An Extremely Brief Introduction to Security Concepts; 5.2 An Overview of OpenPGP and S/MIME; 5.3 Combining Security and MIME; 5.4 The OpenPGP Format; 5.5 The S/MIME Format; Chapter 6: vCard; 6.1 Personal Data Interchange with vCard; 6.2 The vCard Version 3.0 Profile; 6.3 Version 3.0 Housekeeping Types; 6.4 Version 3.0 Identification Types; 6.5 The vCard Version 2.1 Profile; 6.6 Attaching vCards to Email Messages; Chapter 7: Mailbox Formats; 7.1 mbox; 7.2 Common mbox Variations; 7.3 Variation for lMAP Mailboxes; 7.4 MH; 7.5 Maildir; Chapter 8: Mailcap Files; 8.1 Mailcap File Format; 8.2 Implementation Under Unix Operating Systems; 8.3 Implementation Under Other Operating Systems; Chapter 9: The Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol; 9.1 Using ESMTP; 9.2 ESMTP Commands; 9.3 ESMTP Sessions; Chapter 10: The Post Office Protocol; 10.1 Using POP; 10.2 POP Commands; 10.3 POP Sessions; Chapter 11: The Internet Message Access Protocol; 11.1 Using IMAP; 11.2 IMAP Commands; 11.3 The Nonauthenticated State; 11.4 The Authenticated State; 11.5 The Selected State; 11.6 IMAP Sessions; Chapter 12: The Application Configuration Access Protocol; 12.1 Using ACAP; 12.2 ACAP Datasets; 12.3 Access Control; 12.4 Example Dataset; 12.5 ACAP Commands; 12.6 The Nonauthenticated State; 12.7 The Authenticated State; 12.8 ACAP Sessions; Chapter 13: Email-Related Perl Modules; 13.1 Finding and Installing Perl Modules; 13.2 Maturity of the Mail-Related Modules; 13.3 Email-Related Modules Quick Reference; Chapter 14: The Java Mail API; 14.1 An Overview of the Java Mail API; 14.2 Java Mail API Reference; 14.3 The javax.mail.internet Package; 14.4 The javax.mail.search Package; 14.5 The javax.mail.event Package; Chapter 15: Creating and Sending a Multipart Mail Message; 15.1 Designing a MIME-Capable Replacement for /bin/mail; 15.2 Creating mail.pl; 15.3 Extending and Enhancing mail.pl; 15.4 Sending MIME Email via Java; Chapter 16: Archiving and Cleaning a Mailbox; 16.1 Scrubbing Unwanted MIME Attachments; 16.2 Creating mboxscrub.pl; 16.3 Extending and Enhancing mboxscrub.pl; Chapter 17: Watching an IMAP Mailbox; 17.1 Designing JBiff; 17.2 Creating JBiff; 17.3 Extending JBiff; Chapter 18: Anti-Spamming Techniques; 18.1 The UCE Problem; 18.2 Recipient Approaches; 18.3 Service Provider Approaches; 18.4 Legislative Approaches; Chapter 19: The Future of Email; 19.1 Trends in MUAs; 19.2 Trends with Web-based Mail; 19.3 Trends Inside Firewalls; Internet RFCs Relating to Email; MIME Media Types; ASCII; Mail-Related URLs; Glossary; Colophon;