Hour 18. Email
What You'll Learn in This Hour:
Email
SMTP
Spam
You don't have to be a computer professional to notice that email is becoming an extremely common feature of the modern world. Both professional and personal relationships now depend on email for fast, reliable communication across great distances. This hour introduces some important email concepts and shows how electronic mail services operate on a TCP/IP network.
At the completion of this hour, you will be able to
Describe the parts of an email message
Discuss the email delivery process
Describe how an SMTP transmission works
Discuss the mail retrieval protocols POP3 and IMAP4
Describe the role of an email reader
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