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Data and Computer Communications Eighth Edition by William Stallings Lecture slides by Lawrie Brown Internet Applications Electronic Mail and Network Management One of the most exciting aspects of birds lives is how they interact with others during such social activities as defending territories, courting mates, nesting, raising young, and flocking. Birds level of sociability changes with the seasons; they may be gregarious at certain times of year yet highly territorial at others. Some of the most fascinating behavior occurs in spring and summer when birds are engaged in breeding. During a social interaction, an individual is coordinating its activities with those of another. This inevitably requires communication. —Secret Lives of Common Birds, Marie Read Electronic Mail most heavily used application on any network Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) TCP/IP delivery of simple text messages Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) delivery of other types of data voice, images, video clips SMTP RFC 821 not concerned with format of messages or data covered in RFC 822 (see later) SMTP uses info written on envelope of mail message header does not look at contents message body except: standardize message character set to 7 bit ASCII add log info to start of message Basic Operation email message is created by user agent program (mail client), and consists of: header with recipient’s address and other info body containing user data messages queued and sent as input to SMTP sender program yypically a server process (daemon on UNIX) SMTP Mail Flow Mail Message Contents each queued message has two parts message text RFC 822 header with envelope and list of recipients message body, composed by user list of mail destinations derived by user agent from header may be listed in header may require expansion of mailing lists may need replacement of mnemonic names with mailbox names if BCCs indicated, user agent needs to prepare correct message format SMTP Sender tak