This document can't go into detail on all the topics touched by the provided functions. Further information is provided by the documentation of the c-client library source (docs/internal.txt). and the following RFC documents:
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
(SMTP). Standard for ARPA internet text messages
. Internet Message Access Protocol
(IMAP) Version 4rev1. Post Office Protocol Version 3
(POP3). Network News Transfer Protocol
(NNTP). Common Internet Message Headers
. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
(MIME). Programming Internet Email
by David Wood and » Managing IMAP by Dianna Mullet & Kevin Mullet.