Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:44:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Simone Paddock <simone@oreilly.com>
To: cool@eklektix.com
Subject: O'Reilly releases "Programming Internet Email"

For immediate release
For more information, a review copy, cover art, or interview with the
author, contact:
Lisa Mann (707) 829-0515 ext 230 or lisam@oreilly.com


Mastering Internet Messaging Systems with O'Reilly's Latest Release
"Programming Internet Email"


Sebastopol, CA--The Internet's "killer app" is not the World Wide Web
or Push technologies: it is humble electronic mail. More people use
email than any other Internet application. As the number of email users
swells, and as email takes on an ever greater role in personal and
business communication, Internet mail protocols have become not just an
enabling technology for messaging, but a programming interface on top
of which core applications are built. O'Reilly & Associates newest
release, "Programming Internet Email" by David Wood unmasks the Internet
mail system and shows how a loose federation of connected networks have
combined to form the world's largest and most heavily trafficked
message system.

"Programming Internet Email" tames the Internet's most popular messaging
service. For programmers building applications on top of email
capabilities, and power users trying to get under the hood of their own
email systems, "Programming Internet Email" stands out as an essential
guide and reference book. In typical O'Reilly fashion, "Programming
Internet Email" covers the topic with nineteen tightly written chapters
and five useful appendixes.

I wrote "Programming Internet Email" because I needed it, explained Wood.
No other book brought the relevant standards together in one place.
Before this book, one had to plow through the Internet RFCs, an
academic exercise at best and impossible at worst. I wanted to bring
together all the relevant Internet standards regarding email in one
volume. This book also addresses upcoming email standards, such as
encrypted email, electronic business cards and remote configuration
protocols.

"Other applications may be sexier, but email is the one that lets us
communicate with each other most effectively," said Wood. "This book
explains the Internet mail system.  The Internet mail system is the one
that ties together every other email system that exists today. It is
the great gatekeeper."

Chapter 12, The Application Configuration Access Protocol, is available
free online at:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progintemail/chapter/ch12.html

For more information about the book, including Table of Contents,
index, author bio, and samples, see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progintemail/index.html/

For a cover graphic in jpeg format go to:
ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/graphics/book_covers/hi-res/1565924797.jpg


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Programming Internet Email
By David Wood
1st Edition August 1999 (US)
1-56592-479-7, 378 pages, $34.95 (US$)
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