Emails from leading scientists leaked onlineClimate sceptics claim leaked emails are evidence of collusion among scientists Hundreds of emails and documents exchanged between world's leading climate scientists stolen by hackers and leaked online A researcher collects data from an... In this article: Climate change, University of East Anglia, Emails, Real Climate, Met Office, and London School of Economics |
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washingtonpost.com | 18 hours ago
How to Choose a Hosted E-mail Solution
...your company as much as good ol' e-mail. While larger organizations have the hardware, infrastructure, and human capital to manage e-mail in-house, small businesses with tiny to non-existent IT departments don't have that luxury. Here's how...
In this article: Google, Gmail, Microsoft, SharePoint, Google Docs, Small business, Microsoft Outlook, Firefox, and Internet Explorer
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scotsman.com - Scotland | 23 hours ago
Police officer in trouble over racist e-mail
...November 2009 A POLICE officer has been hauled in front of a misconduct hearing by force chiefs after being caught sending a racist e-mail joke to colleagues. The Lothian officer was punished after the offensive message, which was sent...
In this article: Allegation, Lothian and Borders Police, Muslim Council of Britain, Scottish Police Federation, Edinburgh, and Scotland
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Wired Top Stories | 1 day ago
Lock Down Your Inbox by Encrypting Your E-Mail
Your e-mail holds the bulk of your online information. Unfortunately, that information is out in the open. That is, unless you decide to encrypt it so only you can determine who can read it. The growth of the internet, and e-mail in...
In this article: Quantum mechanics, World War II, Pretty Good Privacy, Microsoft Outlook, GNU Privacy Guard, Firefox, Thawte, PGP, and Google
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Houston Chronicle | 1 day ago
E-mails show KBR feared casualties before deadly attack
...KBR halt convoys for the next day. . KBR security force member Keith Richard also expressed concerns about casualties in an e-mail the day before the attacks. But later that night, he wrote, "If the military pushes, we push. " Seagle...
In this article: E-mails, Plaintiff, Middle East, and U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
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Philly.com | 2 days ago
End of the e-mail era? I'm not buying it
...that other folks are feeling the same way I do. Yes, there are steps that can be taken to better manage e-mail. You can unsubscribe to marketing mailing lists - at least those from legitimate marketers - through a link they are required to...
In this article: Legal age, Chicago Tribune, Gmail, Yahoo mail, Twitter, and The Wall Street Journal
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Sunday Mirror | 3 days ago
E-mail to be extinct in 10 years and other predictions to be taken with a pinch of salt
In this article: Airbus A380, Boeing, Carnegie Mellon University, Twitter, Herbert A. Simon, 20th Century Fox, and Charlie Chaplin
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Charlotte Observer | 4 days ago
E-mail details plan by health bill foes to step up attacks
...to portray the legislation as a job-killer and threat to the economy, according to an e-mail solicitation from a top Chamber official. The e-mail, written by the Chamber's senior health policy manager and obtained by The Washington Post,...
In this article: Barack Obama, Mitch McConnell, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, White House, Climate change, David Axelrod, and Harry Reid
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San Jose Mercury News | 4 days ago
Wolverton: E-mail overload
In this article: Chicago Tribune, Gmail, Yahoo mail, Twitter, and The Wall Street Journal
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AP Online | 7 days ago
Tenn. trooper suspended over white pride e-mail
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee state trooper who accidentally sent an e-mail proclaiming white pride to 787 state employees has been suspended for 15 days without pay and will have to attend diversity training. The e-mail from...
In this article: Tennessee and Department of Safety
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washingtonpost.com | November 11, 2009
Web-based e-mail features come to desktop software
NEW YORK -- E-mail has taken a full circle. Over the years, Web-based e-mail services have gotten much better, sporting many features once available only with the e-mail programs that reside on the computer desktop. Now, those desktop...
In this article: Web-based, Thunderbird, Gmail, Mozilla Messaging, Firefox, AOL, Google Inc, and Microsoft Corp
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Electronic mail, often abbreviated as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages, designed primarily for human use. E-mail systems are based on a store-and-forward model in which e-mail computer server systems accept, forward, deliver and store messages on behalf of users, who only need to connect to the e-mail infrastructure, typically an e-mail server, with a network-enabled device (e.g., a personal computer) for the duration of message submission or retrieval. Rarely is e-mail transmitted directly from one user's device to another's.
An electronic mail message consists of two components, the message header, and the message body, which is the email's content. The message header contains control information, including, minimally, an originator's email address and one or more recipient addresses. Usually additional information is added, such as a subject header field.
Originally a text-only communications medium, email is extended to carry multi-media content attachments, which were standardized in with RFC 2045 through RFC 2049, collectively called, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME).
The foundation for today's global Internet e-mail service was created in the early ARPANET and standards for encoding of messages were proposed as early as, for example, in 1973 (RFC 561). An e-mail sent in the early 1970s looked very similar to one sent on the Internet today. Conversion from the ARPANET to the Internet in the early 1980s produced the core of the current service.
Network-based email was initially exchanged on the ARPANET in extensions to the File Transfer Protocol (FTP), but is today carried by the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), first published as Internet Standard 10 (RFC 821) in 1982. In the process of transporting email messages between systems, SMTP communicates delivery parameters using a message envelope separately from the message (headers and body) itself.
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