E-mail Architecture I
E-mail is the most popular application on the Internet today. Closelyfollowed by search. This article aims to take a high level view of thevarious components that go into making e-mail work for you.
For non technical people, e-mail and instant messaging are the window to the Internet. Give them an e-mail client, even a web based interface and they will marvel at the ability to interact with anyone on this planet.
Today's e-mail clients come with support for various non textual modes of communication. You can send any binary data as attachment including mp3 songs, movies, pdf documents and so on. But text remains as the primary means of communicating with each other.
In fact most mailing lists do not even support html mails. It is only plaintext and that too wrapped at 72 characters. Mailing lists are a separate topic in itself and autogenerated mails and robots that respond to mails form part of sophisticated mail solutions.
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