On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:44:38 -0800 (PST), Jeffrey Goldberg
<jeffrey+lists@???> wrote:
>The document should NOT be about configuring any MTA, but cover concepts.
>What comes to mind as topics are:
>
> (1) MTA versus MUA
>
> (2) Envelope vs Header
>
> (3) Mail access (IMAP, POP3, HTTP, etc) vs Mail Transport
>
> (4) Bounces
> (b) Warnings
>
> (4*) Received: lines
>
> (5) MTA vs/with MDA
>
> (6) ESMTP vs SMTP
>
> (7) How mailing lists work
>
> (8) How autoresponder ought to work
>
> (9) spam (this section will just be pointers to other documents)
> (a) open relays.
>
> (10) Duplication of messages (common causes).
>
>
>Ooops. This is getting too ambitous. I'd better scale it down, or hope
>that someone else will write it. After all, I'm too lazy to renumber
>after I added 4* to the list.
This shouldn't be an online document, it ought to be a book. I smell a
significant market.
Greetings
Marc
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