Electronic mails (Emails).ppt

Electronic mails (Emails) CSC1720 – Introduction to Internet Essential Materials Outline Part I – General part Email basics How does email work? Basic email operations Signatures, Attachment (MIME) Part II – Technical part SMTP, HTTP, POP and IMAP Part III – more advanced SPAM CAUCE Email etiquette (Netiquette) CUHK CWEM Phonebook directory What is Email? A mail, but is sent electronically across the Internet. Quickly delivered in seconds or minutes (if without problem). Pros Cons Advantages Convenience, Fast speed, Inexpensive, Printable, Reliable, Global, Generality (not limited to text, but graphics, programs, even sounds) Disadvantages Misdirection, Interception, Forgery, overload, Funk (Spamming), No response (from the receiver). Think one good and one bad experience that you have had with email. The growth of Email Users Messages Figure from Discovering 2000, Shelly Cashman Series, Thomson Learning Email address What you need is The E-mail address of the recipient. user@host cccheung@.hk eng70132@leonis.nus.sg .hk is the domain name of the mail server which handles the recipients mail. “cccheung is the user name of the recipient. User name and hostname are separated by @. Email server and client Email client – software / program that can transfer e-mail from a local host to a local e-mail server. Email server – software/program that can send/receive e-mail from/to other email servers. Mailbox – An electronic mailbox is a disk file which holds email messages. Electronic mailbox Email Software (Client) Graphical Client (User friendly) Outlook Netscape Email Software (Client) Text mode (UNIX - mailserv, logic server) mutt pine Email Software (Server) Install the mail server on Linux/Unix or Windows platform. Signature Cc Bcc Carbon Copy Section Send a message to more than one person, all the recipients will see the list of email addresses. Blind Carbon Copy Section The addresses won’t be seen by the recipients. When email is sent