Electronic Mail

• Email Addresses
• SMTP - Simple Mail Transport Protocol
• Sending Binary Files
• Using Electronic Mail
• Email Operations
• Setting Up an Email Client
• Email to Other Systems
• Email Documentation

Email Addresses

• Email Address Examples

SMTP - Simple Mail Transport Protocol

Sending Binary Files

• Can't set the Eighth Bit!
• Encoding Methods

  • MIME
  • UUENCODE
  • BinHex

Using Electronic Mail

• Mail Etiquette
• DON'T SHOUT
• FLAMES
• Spoilers
• Legalities
• Acronyms, Emoticons
  See Some Internet Acronyms and Some Emoticons in the Appendix

Email Operations

Setting Up an Email Client

• Network Configuration
• Package Configuration
• Operations
• Mail Boxes and Filters
• Address Lists
• Signatures
• External Mailing

Email to Other Systems

• MCI
• Compuserve
• IBMMAIL
• FidoNet
• GEnie
• BIX
• AT&T
• AppleLink
• Others
• X.400

Email Documentation

• RFC 821 - Simple mail transfer Protocol
• RFC 1341 - MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies
• RFC 1521 - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions - Part 1
• RFC 1522 - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions - Part 2