Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
3 Hour(s) 17 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Ezeuko Emmanuel
Certificate
- Available
- *The delivery and distribution of the certificate are subject to the policies and arrangements of the course provider.
Rating
Course Overview
C++ Guided project - Design of a mail server
This Course guides the learner through the design of a Mail Server in C++. The course opens with discussions on the difference between different Mail server protocols including SMTP, IMAP and POP3. It progresses towards the different types of servers including Mail server, database server, dns server, HTTP server etc and finally the POP version 3 protocol and twelve of its commands are discussed.
Then the coding project guided by the instructor who first designs a simple server protocol to open connection for a client. All necessary code required to setup a server, generate threads for clients, listen for connect and setup the mail server is programmed. Once a client is connected and on a separate thread the server listens for commands from the client . The list of POP3 commands programmed in this course includes:
RPOP
RETR
STAT
LIST
USER
NOOP
LAST
TOP
QUIT
DELE
RSET
LAST
There are two client designs one client design runs on the command line and the second design displays on GUI( Graphical User Interface) using QT. The GUI design is discussed at length and It consists of a simple design that touches the depth of client socket design. Messages are displayed on text browser and Client messages appear on a line edit.
This course is intended for C++ developers and is a full hands on with a guide from the instructor, from start to the finish , So enroll !!!
Course Content
- 1 section(s)
- 23 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
What You’ll Learn
- The student will learn the difference between SMTP, POP3, and IMAP mail servers
- The student will learn how to design a command line client and also GUI to display response from server
- The student will understand the POP3 protocols and also the POP3 Commands
- The student will design a POP3 mail server that processes commands between the client.
- The student will learn the basics of socket programming and how to design a server socket and a client
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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JJohn kenwood
mail server course with a bit QT display, i enjoyed it. i also want the instructor to seperate the qt part from the C mailserver code , because it confues atimes . however its 5-star
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CCarla may
a combination of c++ and qt , for both backend and display server. one of a kind lecture, i enjoyed it
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JJames Fraser
the course uses the smtp rfc for design, I must recommend as a very standard course on mail server design. very good lectures BTW
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FFrank Watson
standard course that use RFC , the instructor did well
