E-mail: A Practical Guide: A Practical Approach (Computer Weekly Professional) - Softcover

A practical guide/source book of tips and ideas for experienced administrators together with all the information needed to help someone who has just been landed with the project of installing E-Mail. The content covers choosing and installing E-Mail for small peer-to-peer LANs to client server models to WANs. The importance of integrating existing E-Mail systems (perhaps on mini or mainframe) with LANs or with the arrival of distributed applications is also covered. This book shows network administrators the benefits of E-Mail, how to choose a system for their needs, and the options available to make the most productive use of it. It explains the uses of E-Mail, how to decide on strategy, the industry standards, and so on. It covers how to implement an E-Mail system, how to integrate E-Mail with existing user applications, and how to train people to use E-Mail productively. The book includes a free disk, containing a full freeware E-Mail system for Novell Netware plus Macros for cc:Mail, MS-Mail and beyond mail, as well as utilities such as a message encryption utility and a TSR chat utility for Netware.

Simon Collin is the network columnist for PC Magazine, and columnist for LAN Magazine and Personal Computer World Magazine.