There is so much more we could go into on the subject of e-mail. For instance, there are the rather significant topics of spam and viruses, cryptographic issues, and virtual hosting. All of this would be good to teach you, but we just don’t have the time in one semester. However, you should know that the practical aspects of these topics is similar to the processes we have already used. Here are some topics and tools the eager student may want to read.
How to maintain suitable behaviour on a network.
A very powerful mail filtering tool.
A very useful spam filter.
A funny anecdote, worth reading.