Summary
This hour described what happens to an email message after it leaves your computer. You looked behind the scenes at the email delivery process. You learned about SMTP and the mail retrieval techniques such as POP3, IMAP4, and webmail. This hour also discussed the role of the email reader application and described the ongoing struggle to control and contain spam email messages.
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