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Sams Teach Yourself J2EE™ in 21 Days
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Sams Teach Yourself J2EE™ in 21 Days

by Martin Bond, Dan Haywood, Debbie Law, Andy Longshaw, Peter Roxburgh
April 2002
Beginner to intermediate
1128 pages
26h 33m
English
Sams
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Understanding E-Mail

E-mail is something that most people take for granted without ever really understanding how it works. If you want to write applications that send and receive e-mail messages, it is essential to have some understanding of a typical e-mail system environment.

E-mail messages are sent on a client/server basis, but one that is different to that used for Web pages. Figure 11.1 shows a typical e-mail delivery process. As you can see, both the sender and recipient act as clients to e-mail servers. The sender creates a message and this forwards to an e-mail server. The server then uses the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to send the message across the Internet to the recipient's mail box on another e-mail server. The receiver ...

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