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the `To:` header line contains the email addresses of the primary recipients of the message [#fto]_. Several addresses can be separated by using commas.
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Other header lines appear in most email messages. The `Subject:` header line allows the sender to indicate the topic discussed in the email. Three types of header lines can be used to specify the recipients of a message :
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The date. This header line starts with `Date:`. :rfc:`5322` precisely defines the format used to encode a date.
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The sender address. This header line starts with `From:`. This contains the (optional) name of the sender followed by its email address between `<` and `>`. Email addresses are always composed of a username followed by the `@` sign and a domain name.
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The email header contains several lines that all begin with a keyword followed by a colon and additional information. The format of email messages and the different types of header lines are defined in :rfc:`5322`. Two of these header lines are mandatory and must appear in all email messages :
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Email messages are entirely composed of lines of ASCII characters. Each line can contain up to 998 characters and is terminated by the `CR` and `LF` control characters :rfc:`5322`. The lines that compose the `header` appear before the message `body`. An empty line, containing only the `CR` and `LF` characters, marks the end of the `header`. This is illustrated in the figure below.
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the `body` that contains the message itself.
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a `header` that plays the same role as the letterhead in regular mail. It contains metadata about the message.
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Email messages, like postal mail, are composed of two parts :
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We will first discuss the format of email messages followed by the protocols that are used on today's Internet to exchange and retrieve emails. Other email systems have been developed in the past [Bush1993]_ [Genilloud1990]_ [GC2000]_, but today most email solutions have migrated to the Internet email. Information about the software that is used to compose and deliver emails may be found on wikipedia_ among others, for both `email clients`_ and `email servers <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mail_servers>`_. More detailed information about the full Internet Mail Architecture may be found in :rfc:`5598`.
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software, that allows servers to efficiently exchange email messages
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client software, that allows users to easily create and read email messages
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protocols, that allow hosts and servers to exchange email messages
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a message format, that defines how valid email messages are encoded
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The email system that we consider in this book is composed of four components :
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Before looking at the details of Internet email, let us consider a simple scenario illustrated in the figure below, where Alice sends an email to Bob. Alice prepares her email by using an `email clients`_ and sends it to her email server. Alice's `email server <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mail_servers>`_ extracts Bob's address from the email and delivers the message to Bob's server. Bob retrieves Alice's message on his server and reads it by using his favorite email client or through his webmail interface.
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Electronic mail, or email, is a very popular application in computer networks such as the Internet. Email `appeared <http://openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/firstemailframe.html>`_ in the early 1970s and allows users to exchange text based messages. Initially, it was mainly used to exchange short messages, but over the years its usage has grown. It is now not only used to exchange small, but also long messages that can be composed of several parts as we will see later.
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Electronic mail
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DNS header
Entête DNS
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