A list of resources follows.
Sendmail.org: http://www.sendmail.org/
Sendmail Installation and Operations Guide (distributed with Sendmail source)
sendmail, Third Edition, Bryan Costales (O'Reilly), 2002
sendmail Cookbook, Craig Hunt (O'Reilly), 2003
sendmail 8.13 Companion, Bryan Costales et al. (O'Reilly), 2004
Postfix.org: http://www.postfix.org/
Postfix: The Definitive Guide, Kyle D. Dent (O'Reilly), 2003
Clam AntiVirus: http://www.clamav.net/
MAPS (RBL): http://www.mail-abuse.com/
Open Relay Database (RBL): http://www.ordb.org/
RFC-Ignorant.org (RBL): http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/
SpamAssassin: http://spamassassin.apache.org/
SpamCop (RBL): http://www.spamcop.net/
SPF: http://spf.pobox.com/
SPF Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework
OpenSSL: http://www.openssl.org/
SASL at Carnegie Mellon: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/
Courier IMAP: http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/
Cyrus IMAP Server: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/
Fetchmail: http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/
IMP (Webmail): http://www.horde.org/imp/
Qpopper: http://qpopper.sourceforge.net/
SquirrelMail (Webmail): http://www.squirrelmail.org/
UW IMAP information center: http://www.washington.edu/imap/
RFC 753: Internet Message Protocol
RFC 974: Mail Routing and the Domain System
RFC 1225: Post Office Protocol Version 3
RFC 1869: SMTP Service Extensions
RFC 1893: Enhanced Mail System Status Codes
RFC 1991: PGP Message Exchange Formats
RFC 2033: Local Mail Transfer Protocol
RFC 2060: Internet Message Access Protocol Version 4, rev 1
RFC 2246: The TLS Protocol Version 1.0
RFC 2076: Common Internet Message Headers
RFC 2476: Message Submission
RFC 2487: SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS
RFC 2821: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (Supercedes RFC 821)