21.1. Mail Systems

E-mail has become a everyday task. Checking your e-mail in the morning or at work is almost as important as brushing your teeth. The Internet is a fundamental tool. E-mail is essential, and not only for business processes. This section is dedicated to e-mail and what you can do with e-mail. You will learn to check your e-mail with the help of PHP and you will see how to store information about e-mail in the database.

21.1.1. Fundamentals

Before we start with some nice source code, it is necessary to take a look at the fundamentals.

In many systems text was encoded using 7-bit code. Although an ASCII character needs 8 bits, many mail systems relied on 7-bit coding. In addition to ASCII characters, it is necessary to transmit ...

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