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    This document discusses email service configuration and architecture. It describes the components of an email system including user agents, message transfer agents, and message access agents. It explains four scenarios for email delivery based on whether the sender and receiver are on the same or different systems. It then provides details on how user agents create and receive messages, how SMTP transfers messages between MTAs, and how POP3 and IMAP retrieve messages from servers and deliver to users.

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    Configuring Email Service

    CONFIGURING EMAIL
    SERVICE
    1 ITP4112 Network and Virtualized Systems
    Administration Project
    ELECTRONIC MAIL
    Allows message to include text, audio and video,
    one message to one / many recipients

    Configuring Email Service


    Email system architecture
    Useragent (UA)
    Message transfer agent (MTA)
    Message access agent (MAA)

    2
    FIRST SCENARIO
    When the sender and the receiver of an e-
    mail are on the same system, we need only
    two user agents.

    Configuring Email Service


    3
    SECOND SCENARIO
    When the sender and the receiver of an e-
    mail are on different systems, we need two
    UAs and a pair of MTAs (client and server)

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    4
    THIRD SCENARIO
    When the sender is connected to the mail
    server via a LAN or a WAN, we need two
    UAs and two pairs of MTAs (client and

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    server).

    5
    FOUR SCENARIO (1)
    When both sender and receiver are
    connected to the mail server via a
    LAN or a WAN, we need two UAs, two

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    pairs of MTAs and a pair of MAAs.

    This is the most


    common situation
    today. 6
    FOUR SCENARIO (2)
    1. Bob cannot bypass the mail server and use
    MTA server directly

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    2. Bob needs another pair of client/server
    programs, message access program, to pull the
    message from server

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    USER AGENT (1)
    User agent types
    Command-driven E.g. mail, pine, elm

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    GUI-based E.g Eudora, Outlook, Netscape
    Sending Mail
    User, through the UA, creates mail with an envelope
    and a message

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    USER AGENT (2)
    Envelope contains sender & receiver addresses
    Message contains header and body

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    9
    USER AGENT (3)
    Receiving Mail
    User agent is triggered by the user (or a timer)
    If a user has mail, the UA informs the user with a

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    notice
    Email Address unique

    Mailing List - alias to represent several


    different email addresses 10
    USER AGENT (4)
    Email can send messages only in NVT (Network
    Virtual Terminal) 7-bit ASCII

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    It cannot be used for
    languages such as French, German, Chinese and
    Japanese.
    sending binary files or video or audio data
    Solution : Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
    (MIME)

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    MESSAGE TRANSFER AGENT (1)
    Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
    2 pairs of MTA client/server programs are used

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    in most common situation

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    MESSAGE TRANSFER AGENT (2)
    SMTP uses commands and responses to transfer
    messages between an MTA client and MTA
    server

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    13
    MESSAGE ACCESS AGENT (1)
    SMTP is NOT involved in the last stage because a
    push protocol, MAA, is needed

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    MESSAGE ACCESS AGENT (2)
    Post Office Protocol, version 3 (POP3)
    Internet Mail Access Protocol, version 4 (IMAP4)

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    POP3 (1)
    Simple
    Client POP3 is installed on the recipient
    computer, server POP3 is installed on the

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    mail server
    Client opens a connection to the server on
    TCP port 110
    It sends username and password to access
    the mailbox
    2 modes
    Delete mode mail is deleted from mailbox
    after retrieval
    Keep mode mail remains in mailbox after 16
    retrieval
    POP3 (2)
    Exchange of commands and responses

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    IMAP4
    More powerful and complex
    Extra functions

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    User can check the email header prior to
    downloading
    User can search the contents of the the email for a
    specific string of characters
    User can partially download email
    User can create, delete, or rename mailboxes on
    server
    User can create a hierarchy of mailboxes in a folder
    for email storage

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    WEB-BASED MAIL
    E.g. Hotmail and Yahoo
    Mail transfer from sender to mail server by

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    HTTP
    Mail transfer from the sending mail server to the

    receiving mail server by SMTP


    Mail transfer from the receiving server to
    receivers browser by HTTP

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    Post Office

    Mailbox

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    Post Office POP3/IMAP4

    M TP
    S

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