Reference List

I recommend the following RFCs. The Section RFCs and Internet Drafts explains how to get them. You can also click on a link to read from a central Web server, but finding another site with copies will probably give you faster response.

• RFC 821, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
• RFC 822, Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages
• RFC 934, Proposed Standard for Message Encapsulation
• RFC 1652, SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport
• RFC 1700, Assigned Numbers
• RFC 1869, SMTP Service Extensions
• RFC 1896, The text/enriched MIME Content-type
• RFC 2045, MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies
• RFC 2046, MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Two: Media Types
• RFC 2047, MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
• RFC 2048, MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Four: Registration Procedures
• RFC 2049, MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples

• Anderson, Robert H., Norman Z. Shapiro, Tora K. Bikson, and Phyllis H. Kantar, The Design of the MH Mail System, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica (CA), December 1989. (N-3017-IRIS)
• Borden, Bruce S., R. Stockton Gaines, and Norman Z. Shapiro, The MH Message Handling System: User's Manual, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica (CA), November 1979. (R-2367-AF)
• Garfinkel, Simson, PGP: Pretty Good Privacy, ISBN 1-56592-098-8, O'Reilly Media, Inc., Sebastopol (CA), 1994.
• Hahn, Harley, A Student's Guide to Unix, ISBN 0-07-025511-3, McGraw-Hill, Inc, New York, 1993. (Not just for students. An excellent guide to UNIX.)
• Kernighan, Brian, and Rob Pike, The UNIX Programming Environment, ISBN 0-13-937681-X, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs (NJ), 1984.
• Kochan, Stephen G., and Patrick H. Wood, UNIX Shell Programming, Hayden Books, Indianapolis (IN), 1985. (A revised edition is out, but it unfortunately doesn't cover the C Shell.)
• Ousterhout, John, Tcl and the Tk Toolkit, ISBN 0-201-63337-X, Addison-Wesley. (By the creator of Tcl and Tk.)
• Peek, Jerry, Mike Loukides, Tim O'Reilly, et al., UNIX Power Tools, ISBN 1-56592-260-3, O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2nd Edition, August 1997.
• Quercia, Valerie, and Tim O'Reilly, Volume 3: X Window System User's Guide, O'Reilly Media, Inc., Sebastopol (CA), January 1993.
• Rose, Marshall T., The Internet Message: Closing the Book with Electronic Mail, ISBN 0-13-092941-7, PTR Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs (NJ), 1993.
• Rose, M. T., "The RAND MH Message Handling System: The UCI BBoards Facility." (This paper is distributed with MH.)
• Wall, Larry, and Randal L. Schwartz, Programming perl, ISBN 1-56592-149-6, O'Reilly Media, Inc., Sebastopol (CA), 2nd Edition, September 1996.
• Welch, Brent B., Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk, ISBN 0-13-182007-9, Prentice-Hall, 1995. (By the author of exmh and this book's chapters about it.)