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new chapter 4 (split ch5); added lots of annotations
author meillo@marmaro.de
date Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:44:22 +0100
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 \chapter{Introduction}
 \label{chap:introduction}
 
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 \section{Transporting mail}
 
 
 \subsection{History of electronic mail}
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 %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.
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 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
 
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 \subsection{Definition of \MTA}
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 %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.
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 \subsection{\name{sendmail-compatibility}}
 \label{sec:sendmail}
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 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.
 
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 \section{The \masqmail\ project}
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 \subsubsection{Target field}
 Its original author, Oliver Kurth, sees \masqmail\ so:
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 \section{Problems to solve}
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+%FIXME: what's the intention of this document?
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