Chapter: Email
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Mail history
Including pre-Internet mail (UUCP)
Mail architecture
Mail hierarchies
Categories of mail agents
Store and forward (MX)
Mail protocol standards
(E)SMTP, POP, IMAP
Mail format standards
Meaning of headers
Mailbox formats
Mail reliability and scalability
Storage and mail backends
Mail flow control, auditing and accounting
Load balancing and failover
Mail abuse
SPAM and viruses
SPF and Sender Id
Content filtering
Policy filtering
Mail security
Transport security (SSL)
Content security (PGP, S-MIME)
Mail gateways
Mail to news and news to mail gateways
Gateways to non-Internet mail (Lotus Notes, Exchange Server)
Mail features
Aliases and forwarding
Mailing lists
Virtual domains
Mail usage
Conventions (quoting)
Etiquette
Mail server implementations
Sendmail
Postfix
Qmail
Relations with other technologies
Directory services (DNS, LDAP)
Authentication frameworks (Kerberos)
Instant messaging
Client side mail manipulation
User filtering