Книга: Internet Mail Protocols: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Post Office Protocol, Email Client, Internet Message Access Protocol

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Post Office Protocol, Email Client, Internet Message Access Protocol, Message Transfer Agent, Application Configuration Access Protocol, Email Forwarding, Extended Smtp, S/mime, Mail Submission Agent, Messaging Application Programming Interface, Lemonade Profile, Mail-11, Vpim, Message Handling System, Starttls, Imap Idle, Local Mail Transfer Protocol, Push-Imap, On-Demand Mail Relay, Simple Mail Access Protocol, Imsp, Fyreball, Efficient Mail Submission and Delivery, Mail Transfer Protocol, Internet Mail Standard, Quick Mail Transport Protocol, Message-Oriented Text Interchange Standard, Nnfmp, Quick Mail Queuing Protocol. Excerpt: T-Shirt of Second International ACAP Conference The Application Configuration Access Protocol (ACAP) is a protocol for storing and synchronizing general configuration and preference data. It was originally developed so that IMAP clients can easily access address books , user options, and other data on a central server and be kept in synch across all clients. Two International ACAP Conferences were held, one in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in 1997, and the other at Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA, USA, in February, 1998. ACAP grew to encompass several other areas, including bookmark management for web browsers -- it's effectively a roaming protocol for Internet applications. ACAP is in use by at least four clients and three servers to varying degrees, but it has never gained the mindshare of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol or SyncML . It's a deceptively simple protocol, but the combination of three key features, hierarchical data, fine-grained access control, and 'contexts' or saved searches with notification, has caused serious problems for server implementors. Unlike LDAP, ACAP was designed for frequent writes, dis...