Electronic Mail List

1 Email Definition

http://www2.whispering.org:8080/infobook/computers/network/CIE/91.ht

Definition of email from www.whispering.org: information on email as one of the earliest Internet services and the numerous documents and protocols which govern mail operation and some of the RFCs that detail the format of mail messages themselves - the syntax and organization of header and body items.

2 How Email works / FCRDC

http://www.ncifcrf.gov/communications/networking/eudora/how.html

A simple explanation on how email works to help understand how the messages you send and receive on your desktop computer travel through the Internet.

3 The Simple Object Access Protocol

http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_soap.html

SOAP is a lightweight and simple XML based messaging protocol that is designed to exchange structured and typed information on the Web which can be used in combination with a variety of existing Internet protocols and formats including HTTP, SMTP, and MIME and can support a wide range of applications from messaging systems to RPC.

4 Simple Object Access Protocol

http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/

Web consortium calls SOAP a lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed environment that consists of three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing what is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for expressing instances of application-defined datatypes, and a convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses which can be used in combination with HTTP and HTTP Extension Framework.

5 Mail Format

http://www2.whispering.org:8080/infobook/computers/network/CIE/92.ht

Definition of email header format from www.whispering.org who documents the syntax of Internet mail headers which are written in ASCII text that can be written and read by users.

6 Mail Transport

http://www2.whispering.org:8080/infobook/computers/network/CIE/93.ht

Once email message headers have been parsed and recipient addresses identified, the message must actually be delivered across the Internet. This is done using DNS and the SMTP protocol.

7 STD.com Remailers

http://world.std.com/~franl/crypto/remailers.html

Anonymous remailers from commercial site STD.com.

8 Andrebacard.com Remailer FAQ

http://www.andrebacard.com/remail.html

Anonymous remailer FAQ from commercial site Andrebacard with links that will connect a user with specific remailers.

9 Becoming an Internet Developer: email

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~ewright/bid/whatemail.html

Information designed for school about how email and email servers work.