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Internet E-Mail Software
Much of Internet e-mail services are delivered through
"freely"See Richard Stallman for one definition of "Free
Software", GNUEmacsManual. available software. In order to
have a better understanding of Internet e-mail it is important to have
some understanding of the software that delivers the services.
The information contained in this chapter is intended to be used as
reference information. This chapter is primarily targeted for
consumption by technical staff.
Those not interested in such details may benefit from simply
"glancing" over this chapter.
E-Mail softeware can best be discussed based on two dimensions.
- The platforms that the software runs on (e.g., UNIX, DOS, MAC)
- The services that the software implements (e.g., User Agent,
MTA).
Two electronic papers,
- UNIX E-Mail Software, [E1]
- UUCP Mail, News and Gateways Software for PCs and MACs, [E2]
provide a comprehensive list of freely available Internet e-mail
These electronic papers introduce many types of E-Mail software which
include:
- User Agents
- E-Mail Directories
- E-Mail Sorters
- Message Transfer Agents
- E-Mail Gateways
- Mailing List maintenance software
- Programming libraries for processing Internet e-mail messages.
In this paper, we focus on freely available UNIX Mail User Agent software.