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Email processes and protocols/Related Articles
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Parent topics
- Email system [r]: General overview of how the Internet electronic mail system works. [e]
Subtopics
- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) [r]: In the Internet Protocol Suite, SMTP is the basic method for transferring the "envelopes" of electronic mail among servers performing the electronic "post office" function, not the user mailbox function. [e] (RFC-5321)
- Post Office Protocol (POP) [r]: A client-server messaging protocol in the Internet Protocol Suite, which pulls messages from a mail storage server to the client machine. [e] (RFC-1939)
- Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) [r]: Add brief definition or description (RFC-3501)
- SMTP example sessions [r]: Typical email sessions using the SMTP protocol. [e]
- Email message formats [r]: The formats and encodings used for text, pictures, and various other objects in an email. [e] (RFC-5322)
- Email message headers [r]: The header lines in every email message, defined in RFC 5322 [e]
- Email authentication [r]: Brief overview of methods used to authenticate the sender of an email. [e]
- Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) [r]: MIME extends the format of Internet mail to allow non-US-ASCII textual messages, non-textual messages, multipart message bodies, and non-US-ASCII information in message headers. [e] (RFC-2045..2049)
