Vulnerability Development: Re: books or material on mail protocols

["John R. Morris" <jrmorris () nerdality com>]

Mads Rasmussen wrote:

> I searched amazon for books on mail protocols such as pop2/3, imap3/4 
> and smtp but wasn't able to find anything interesting, like code 
> examples.
> What puzzles me are the mime encodings and if it's possible to write 
> back to an imap server, you read the message, modify the body and 
> write the changed message back to the imap server.
> I know the source are the RFCs on each protocol, that's fine to 
> understand the protocol, but how do you implement it in win2k, 2k3, 
> unix??
> Could anyone help out?
>
> Thanks for the info on sql injection!!
>
> Mads
Well, for the Unix/Linux side try:
Sendmail  (The infamous bat book)
Managing IMAP
Programming Internet E-Mail
All by O'Reilly

I am sure there are others, including ones covering IIS/SMTP on Windows, 
Exchange (ewww) on Windows, etc. I am very surprised your search didn't 
turn anything up...
- John