How Email Looks
Your email reader application assembles a message into the format necessary for Internet transmission. If your network uses a different protocol system (or a different email system), the message might pass through one or more email gateways that convert the message into the Internet-ready format described in this hour. An email message sent over the Internet consists of two parts:
The header
The body
Like the body of the message, the header is transmitted as ASCII-based text. The header consists of a series of keyword field names followed by one or more comma-separated values. Most of the mail header fields are familiar to anyone who has worked with email. Some of the important header fields are given in Table 18.1.
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