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Electronic mail protocols are application layer protocols. Mail servers use SMTP to send and receive mail messages. User-level client mail applications use SMTP for sending messages to a mail server for relaying and use another protocol to receive messages: POP, IMAP or a proprietary system such as Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes/Domino. Electronic mail protocols are often combined with cryptographic protocols. Information related to such protocols (IMAPS, STARTTLS etc.) should also be submitted to this category.

Subcategories

• Client Software
• PGP
• RFCs
• S-MIME
• Server Software

Resources in This Category

• Client-Server Mail Protocols FAQ

  http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/mailclient-faq/
  A brief summary of POP3, SMTP, and IMAP, including pointers to sources and frequently-asked-questions sites.

• Email Addressing FAQ

  http://faqs.org/faqs/mail/addressing/
  The user+box@host addressing FAQ. A discussion of what exactly is permissible and verifiable in an e-mail address.

• Internet Mail Consortium

  http://www.imc.org/
  Information about IMC and its members, all the Internet mail standards, and links to several IMC-hosted mailing lists.

• Message Access Paradigms and Protocols

  ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap.vs.pop
  Provides background and compares the Post Office Protocol (POP) with the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP).

• MIME Meta-FAQ

  http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/mime-faq/mime0/
  comp.mail.mime meta-FAQ: Help for MIME problems. Pointers to information about Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions and some answers to common problems with MIME.

• Recursive collection of search statistics of a single search criterion within a hierarchy of IMAP folders

  http://switzernet.com/public/091017-support-numbers/
  An example of email statistics collection relying on IMAP protocol - by Switzernet.com

• RFC822 Email Address Validator

  http://www.mythic-beasts.com/~pdw/cgi-bin/emailvalidate
  Online service to check if an email address follows the syntax laid down in RFC822.

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• Home > Computers > Data Formats > MIME Types
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