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01-07-2008, 10:47 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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OS: Vista
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How do email attachments work?
i want to know how a email attachment is sent to the recipient through
the internet. please help me if u know or please provide me a link where i can study about it. i am actually planning to build a mail server on my own. pls help! |
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01-08-2008, 08:09 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Downers Grove, IL
Posts: 1,821
OS: Gentoo Linux, Redhat Enterprise Linux, CentOS
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Re: How do email attachments work?
Attachments are converted into MIME format and transfered during the SMTP connection as part of the DATA transmission. You can read up more about it on these links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_attachment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smtp
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