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Parent topics

• Email system [r]: General overview of how the Internet electronic mail system works. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) [r]: In the Internet Protocol Suite, SMTP is the basic method for transferring the "envelopes" of electronic mail among servers performing the electronic "post office" function, not the user mailbox function. ^[e] (RFC-5321)
• Post Office Protocol (POP) [r]: A client-server messaging protocol for email which requires messages to be downloaded to a client's computer, phone or tablet for reading. ^[e] (RFC-1939)
• Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) [r]: Add brief definition or description (RFC-3501)
• SMTP example sessions [r]: Typical email sessions using the SMTP protocol. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Email message formats [r]: The formats and encodings used for text, pictures, and various other objects in an email. ^[e] (RFC-5322)
• Email message headers [r]: The header lines in every email message, defined in RFC 5322 ^[e]
• Email authentication [r]: Brief overview of methods used to authenticate the sender of an email. ^[e]
• Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) [r]: MIME extends the format of Internet mail to allow non-US-ASCII textual messages, non-textual messages, multipart message bodies, and non-US-ASCII information in message headers. ^[e] (RFC-2045..2049)

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• Telecommunications provider economics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• SMTP example sessions [r]: Typical email sessions using the SMTP protocol. ^[e]
• Email security [r]: Brief description of email security problems and solutions. ^[e]