August 2001
Intermediate to advanced
540 pages
18h 24m
English
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Email Programs
There
are dozens of great email programs on the market today, including
Microsoft's Outlook™,
Microsoft Outlook Express™ and
MSN Hotmail
™, Netscape
Messenger
™, Qualcomm's
Eudora
™, Lotus
Notes™, Lotus
cc:Mail
™, Pegasus
Mail
™,
and Sun Microsystems's Start
Office
™. Most email attacks are written
specifically for Microsoft Outlook, but can be successful to varying
degrees on most of the popular email clients depending on the email
program type and exploit.
Types of Email
Email software comes in three basic types:
Client/server
Web-based
Host-based
The most popular type of email today is based on the
client/server model. The main email software is
located on the local client PC. It contacts a main mail
server
database to deliver and pick up
messages. The mail server collects all messages and distributes them
to either email clients or other email servers for further routing to
their intended destination (called the store-and-forward
model
). Most conventional email systems use the
client/server model. Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Outlook, Netscape
Messenger, and Lotus Notes are all client/server email models.
Web-based email systems, such as
HotMail
or Yahoo! Mail™
, allow end users to pick up their email from any computer with an Internet-connected browser. The user must login with her email name and password. Then she can send and retrieve emails like she normally would, albeit, with less overall functionality. Web-based email creation takes place within ...
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