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Ch 6 Electronic Mail
Unix The Textbook 2nd edition
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Computer Science
Undergraduate 2
09/28/2014

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An e-mail program that you use to compose and read messages
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e-mail user agent program
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an e-mail program that you use to transfer messages between your computer and host computers on the Internet for delivery and disposition.
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e-mail transfer agent
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All e-mail user agents, or email programs such as pine use a standard protocol for the form of an e-mail message known as the __ __ __ __.
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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol(SMTP)
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the e-mail transfer agent can use two common protocols for transferring e-mail between computers
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Post Office Protocol (POP) or the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
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The ___ protocol works best for offline e-mail reading from a single host computer that contains your e-mail.
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Post Office Protocol (POP)
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The ___ protocol works best when you have access from several computers to a single e-mail host computer that you want to read and send messages from.
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Internet Message Transfer Protocol (IMAP)
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the attachment standard that applies to e-mail and dictates the format of multimedia files used as attachments to an e-mail message
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Multimedia Internet Mail Standard (MIME)
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the Internet ___ ___ ___ dictates the exact form of an e-mail address
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Domain Name System
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the simplest kind of e-mail attachment is a ___ ___
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text file
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the most prevalent kind of e-mail attachment that is supported by MIME are___ ____, ___ ___, and ___ ____
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digital images, audio files, and movie files
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The three main categories of e-mail systems for UNIX are ___, ____, and ___
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mail, pine, and K-Mail
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an e-mail function that allows the user to define a list of frequent correspondents' e-mail addresses
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aliases (addressbook)
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an e-mail function that allows the sender to attach either text or multimedia files to a message
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attachments
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an e-mail function that allows the sender to specify recipients of copies of a message
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cc
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an e-mail function that allows the sender to dispose of messages by removing them from the system mailbox
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deleting
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an e-mail function that allows the sender to pass a received message to a new recipient quickly
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forwarding
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an e-mail function that allows the recipient to read incoming messages
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reading
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an e-mail function that allows the recipient to reply immediately to a current or disposed message
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replying
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an e-mail function that recipients to dispose of messages in a logical directory structure for e-mail
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saving in folders
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an e-mail function that allows the user to send messages
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sending
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the easiest and quickest e-mail system to use on UNIX systems
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mail program
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A mail option where a Subject: line is included in the message header for all recipients
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mail -s
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a mail option that allows a carbon copy is sent to address add
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mail -c add
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a mail option that allows a blind carbon copy is sent to address add
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mail -b add
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a mail option where a screen display of message headers is shown first
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mail -h
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a mail option where all messages are displayed with full headers
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mail -P
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If you want to use the mail command to send an email message to someone not on your system you must know the Internet address of the recipient which takes the form:
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username@hostname.domain_name
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the part of the Internet address of the recipient that identifies the recipient on the system he or she is on
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username
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The part of the Internet address of the recipient which is the computer on which the recipient has a username
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hostname
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The part of the Internet address of the recipient which are valid internet domain names
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domain name
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Probably the most extensive and friendly e-mail program available for UNIX
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pine
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in pine, command to go directly to Compose Message screen with To: field set to recipient
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pine recipient
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in pine, command to go directly to inbox, bypassing Main Menu
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pine -i inbox
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a pine feature that associates a single nickname with a single e-mail address
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alias
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a pine feature that associates a single nickname with a group of e-mail addresses
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distribution list
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