Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Simple Mail
Transfer Protocol
(SMTP)
McGraw-Hill ©The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2000
CONTENTS
• USER AGENT (UA)
• ADDRESSES
• DELAYED DELIVERY
• ALIASES
• MAIL TRANSFER AGENT (MTA)
• COMMANDS AND RESPONSES
• MAIL TRANSFER PHASES
• MIME
• MAIL DELIVERY
• MAIL ACCESS PROTOCOLS
SMTP concept
Relay MTAs
Mail gateway
Format
ADDRESSES
Address
Sender-site
delay
Receiver-site
delay
ALIASES
Alias expansion
One-to-many
expansion
Many-to-one
expansion
Email system
Command format
Connection establishment
Message
transfer
Connection termination
MIME
MIME header
Base64
Quoted-printable
Email delivery