华北水利水电大学信息工程学院计算机网络课件 Lecture5.pptVIP

Electronic Mail Three major components: user agents mail servers simple mail transfer protocol: smtp User Agent a.k.a. “mail reader” composing, editing, reading mail messages e.g., Eudora, pine, elm, Netscape Messenger outgoing, incoming messages stored on server Electronic Mail: mail servers Mail Servers mailbox contains incoming messages (yet ot be read) for user message queue of outgoing (to be sent) mail messages smtp protocol between mail server to send email messages client: sending mail server “server”: receiving mail server Electronic Mail: smtp [RFC 821] uses tcp to reliably trans