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new chapter 4 (split ch5); added lots of annotations
author | meillo@marmaro.de |
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date | Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:44:22 +0100 |
parents | e050221efd38 |
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--- a/thesis/tex/1-Introduction.tex Fri Nov 14 18:16:26 2008 +0100 +++ b/thesis/tex/1-Introduction.tex Sun Nov 16 14:44:22 2008 +0100 @@ -1,13 +1,14 @@ \chapter{Introduction} \label{chap:introduction} - +% say what you want to say \section{Transporting mail} \subsection{History of electronic mail} +%FIXME: shorter!!! %TODO: have a quote from Bell Labs about email here Electronic mail\index{electronic mail} (short: \name{email})\citeweb{wikipedia:email} is a basic concept in \unix.\citeweb{unix-mail-intro} On \unix\ machines, a lot of information is distributed by \name{system mail}, which is email sent by the operating system. Beside that, email is the common communication system between humans working on computers. @@ -33,8 +34,10 @@ More information about the history of electronic mail can be found at: \citeweb{email:griffiths}, \citeweb{email:crocker}, \citeweb{email:vleck}, \citeweb{email:akkad}, \citeweb{email:murakami}, and \citeweb{email:tomlinson}. A good starting point for general information on internet history is \citeweb{wikipedia:historyoftheinternet}. %TODO: check the websites which ones are the important ones; remove unnessesary ones + + \subsection{Definition of \MTA} - +%FIXME: better title; work text over! %TODO: when was the term ``mail transfer agent'' established? This thesis is about a \name{mail transfer agent} (or \index{mail transport agent|see{mail transfer agent}}\name{mail transport agent}, short \NAME{MTA}): \masqmail. \sendmail\ is one too---the most important one. @@ -74,6 +77,7 @@ \subsection{\name{sendmail-compatibility}} \label{sec:sendmail} +%FIXME: rewrite! Allman wrote it to transfer emails between different networks, thus giving \sendmail\ mighty address rewriting abilities. In contrast to its predecessor \name{delivermail}, was \sendmail\ designed to offer greatest flexiblity in configuration; this enabled it to deal with any type of network. @@ -98,7 +102,7 @@ \section{The \masqmail\ project} - +%FIXME: explain why masqmail is old and why it is interesting/important however! \subsubsection{Target field} Its original author, Oliver Kurth, sees \masqmail\ so: @@ -146,5 +150,7 @@ \section{Problems to solve} +%FIXME: what problems has masqmail? +%FIXME: what's the intention of this document? +%FIXME: why is it worth the effort? -