Mastering Intranet and Internet Technology

Most likely the first application that a user will want or need.

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

Email Addresses

• Email Address Examples
• account_name@host.domain_name

SMTP - Simple Mail Transport Protocol

Sending Binary Files

• Can't set the Eighth Bit!
• File Encoding Methods
  • MIME
  • UUENCODE
  • BinHex

Using Electronic Mail

• Mail Etiquette
• DON'T SHOUT
• FLAMES
• Spoilers
• Legalities

Acronyms, Emoticons and Smileys

Email Operations

Email System Attributes

Attribute	Comment	Internet?
Create Mail
Maintain Mailing Lists
Reliability		NOT!
Inter-operability
Collection
Routing
Delivery	in good time	NOT!
Store and Forward	sen messages stored until collected
Attach Files to Messages
Copies	carbon/courtesy, blind carbon
Notification		NOT!
Storage
Message Handling System (MHS) and X,400 Support
Authentication		NOT!

Setting Up an Email Client

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

Email to Other Systems

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

	Web Author: Geoff May	Last Update: 27/04/00
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