1. Introduction to Internet
E­Mail
Alberto Garcia Gonzalez
Master on Free Software

2. What is E-Mail?
● Method for sending messages over the Internet
● First defined in RFC 822 (1982)
● Expanded in RFC 2822 and some others
● http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc822
● http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822
● An e­mail message consists of two parts:
● Header
● Body
● E­Mail is usually sent with the SMTP protocol.
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