What is Electronic mail ?

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What is Electronic mail ?, how to write email?, Architecture and Services, The User Agent, Message Formats, Message Transfer, Final Delivery,

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Electronic MailLimani Bhavik & Surani Saunak (Imperial Infosys)

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-> Electronic Mail OR E-Mail…-> Before 1990 it was mostly use in academia.-> In 1990s public know about E-Mail.-> Number of E-Mails sent per day now is vastly more then the number of snail mail.

Electronic Mail

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• Architecture and Services• The User Agent• Message Formats• Message Transfer• Final Delivery

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Electronic Mail (2)

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Architecture and Services

Basic functions• Composition• Transfer• Reporting• Displaying• Disposition

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The User Agent

Envelopes and messages. (a) Paper mail. (b) Electronic mail.

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Message Formats – RFC 822

RFC 822 header fields related to message transport.

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Message Formats – RFC 822

Some fields used in the RFC 822 message header.

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Message Transfer

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Final Delivery

(a) Sending and reading mail when the receiver has a permanent Internet connection and the user agent runs on the same machine as the message transfer agent. (b) Reading e-mail when the receiver has a dial-up connection to an ISP.