A web server is a computer program or software agent that manages Electronic Mail. It is one of the most commonly used services on the Internet, allowing people to send messages to one or more recipients. A web browser dissects the URL into three parts: 1. The protocol ("http") 2. The server name ("www.eilu.com") 3. The file name ('MIS-7212.htm")
A web server is a computer program or software agent that manages Electronic Mail. It is one of the most commonly used services on the Internet, allowing people to send messages to one or more recipients. A web browser dissects the URL into three parts: 1. The protocol ("http") 2. The server name ("www.eilu.com") 3. The file name ('MIS-7212.htm")
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A web server is a computer program or software agent that manages Electronic Mail. It is one of the most commonly used services on the Internet, allowing people to send messages to one or more recipients. A web browser dissects the URL into three parts: 1. The protocol ("http") 2. The server name ("www.eilu.com") 3. The file name ('MIS-7212.htm")
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Makerere University How a web server works Thebrowser (like internet explorer) dissects the URL into three parts: 1. The protocol ("http") 2. The server name ("www.eilu.com") 3. The file name (“MIS-7212.htm") • The browser communicated with DSN to translate the server name www.eilu.com/MIS-7212.htm. into an IP Address (say-226.22.61.137.),
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which it uses to connect to the server machine. The TCP then formed a connection to the server at that IP address on port 80. Using the HTTP protocol, the browser sents a GET request to the server, asking for the file "http://www.eilu.com/MIS-7212.HTM.’’ The server then sent the HTML text for the Web page to the browser The browser read the HTML tags and formatted the page onto your screen
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Emmanuel Eilu (Christ is Lord!) Electronic Mail Invented by Ray Tomlinson in 1972. Is one of the most commonly used services on the Internet, allowing people to send messages to one or more recipients.
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How it works When you send message, MUA(Mail User Agent ) formats the message in Internet e-mail format and uses the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) (is a de facto standard for electronic mail transmissions across the Internet) to send the message to the local mail transfer agent (MTA) (a computer program or software agent that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another.) used to
manage e-mail. The MTA looks at the destination address provided in the SMTP protocol say okot@e.com
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Okot is the username of the recipient, then e.com is a domain name. The MTA looks up this domain name in the Domain Name System. MTA then delivers the email to the MDA (Mail Delivery Agent), There are two main protocols used for retrieving email on an MDA:
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POP3 (Post Office Protocol), the older of the two, which is used for retrieving email and, in certain cases, leaving a copy of it on the server. IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol), which is used for coordinating the status of emails (read, deleted, moved) across multiple email clients. With IMAP, a copy of every message is saved on the server.
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To keep everyone from checking other users' emails, MDA is protected by a user name called a login and by a password. Retrieving mail is done using a software program called an MUA (Mail User Agent). MUA is a program installed on the user's system, it is called an email client (such as Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook, Eudora Mail, Incredimail or Lotus Notes).