E-mail Protocols

Ever since the rise of Internet messaging, e-mail has been a cornerstone of electronic communication. If you’re reading this book, you probably have some prior experience sending e-mail within a programming language, so we aren’t really covering some new and exciting technology that.NET brings to the table. What is exciting is how easy and seamless.NET makes network programming, especially with regard to using the various e-mail protocols to send and retrieve e-mail, and to perform various tasks that may have been convoluted or difficult in the past.