Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume One, 6th Edition

24 Electronic Mail (SMTP, POP, IMAP, MIME)

Chapter Contents

1. 24.1 Introduction, 511

2. 24.2 Electronic Mail, 511

3. 24.3 Mailbox Names And Aliases, 512

4. 24.4 Alias Expansion And Mail Forwarding, 513

5. 24.5 TCP/IP Standards For Electronic Mail Service, 514

6. 24.6 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), 515

7. 24.7 Mail Retrieval And Mailbox Manipulation Protocols, 517

8. 24.8 The MIME Extensions For Non-ASCII Data, 519

9. 24.9 MIME Multipart Messages, 521

1. Summary, 522

24.1 Introduction

This chapter continues our exploration of internetworking by considering electronic mail services and the protocols that support mail transfer and access. The chapter describes how a mail system is organized, explains how mail system software uses the client-server paradigm ...