On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 04:45:36PM -0400, Caine the Wanderer wrote:
sendmail.org is a good place to go. The RFCs at rtfm.mit.edu (I think
that is where they are) also are a good source. The one you would want
would be 822 to start. It will probably lead you into others.
While that would be the old-style way to do this, that's
clearly not going to be sufficient for what this person wants --
everything given to him on a silver platter in a single
paragraph.
The best suggestions I can make is to start with the
following books:
Dr. Bob's Painless Guide to the Internet : & Amazing Things You
Can Do With E-Mail
by Bob Rankin
No Starch Press
ISBN: 1886411093
List Price: $12.95
Netiquette
by Virginia Shea
Paperback 1 Ed edition (May 1994)
Albion Books
ISBN: 0963702513
Amazon.com Price: $19.95
The Elements of E-Mail Style : Communicate Effectively
Via Electronic Mail
by David Angell, Brent D. Heslop
Addison-Wesley Pub Co (C)
ISBN: 0201627094
Paperback - 157 pages (April 1994)
List Price: $12.95
All About Internet Mail (Internet Workshop Series, No. 7)
by Lee David Jaffe
Library Solutions Inst & Pr
ISBN: 188220820X
Amazon.com Price: $34.00
3 Rs of E-Mail : Risks, Rights and Responsibilities
by Diane B. Hartman, Karen S. Nantz
Crisp Publications Inc.
ISBN: 1560523786
Paperback - 153 pages (June 1996)
List Price: $12.95
E-mail Companion; Communicating Effectively Via the
Internet and Other Global Networks
by John S. Quarterman, Smoot Carl-Mitchell
Addison Wesley Pub Co
ISBN: 0201406586
Paperback - 318 pages (November 1994)
List Price: $19.95
The Internet Message : Closing the Book With Electronic Mail
(out of print)
by Marshall T. Rose
Prentice Hall (Sd)
ISBN: 0130929417
Managing Mailing Lists: Majordomo, LISTSERV, Listproc,
and SmartList
By Alan Schwartz
O'Reilly & Assoc.
1st Edition March 1998
ISBN: 1-56592-259-X
298 pages, $29.95
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mailing/>
sendmail, 2nd Edition
By Bryan Costales & Eric Allman
O'Reilly & Assoc.
2nd Edition January 1997
ISBN: 1-56592-222-0
1050 pages, $39.95
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sendmail2/noframes.html>
If you add these (and some others) to the complete list of
Internet e-mail related RFCs (of which you can find a list at
<http://www.imc.org/mail-standards.html>, you should have at
least a decent start on the issue.
I would recommend against buying one of the "dummies" or
"idiot's" guides.
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