Rating: 

Quite a good book actually.

I couldn't put it down the first time until I was halfway through it!

Be sure that you get a good nights sleep before you pick it up

though, some of the examples are recursive and could give

you a headache.

Next to the revelation of Eudora's extended X-header options

available only in its windows config file, and it's command line

abilitites to send mail without MAPI from scripts...

This book is darned near essential for understanding Email.

It moves from the the earliest simple co-operative defacto

text-only forms up through offical MIME and gives detailed

examples for the two MIME ecoding standards BASE64 and

Quoted printable.

And briefly dives in to Perl modules for generating and

manipulating it.

Years ago I bought the Bat Book for Sendmail hoping to

learn just what's covered specifically by this book.. this

was a more profitable purchase.