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The document discusses email protocols like SMTP that are used when sending emails between different domains like yahoo and gmail. It also discusses using command line email tools to send and view emails on servers, with the emails being stored in text files in a user's /var/mail directory.

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The document discusses email protocols like SMTP that are used when sending emails between different domains like yahoo and gmail. It also discusses using command line email tools to send and view emails on servers, with the emails being stored in text files in a user's /var/mail directory.

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Assume that Alice sends an email from her alice@yahoo.com account to Bob who


uses bob@yahoo.com. Which protocols are involved in the transmission of this email?
 SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) – They have the same Email and The
same type of Protocol
2. Same question when Alice sends an email to her friend Trudy, trudy@gmail.com.

 SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) – They have a different Email But The
same type of Protocol
3. Before the advent of webmail and feature rich mailers, email was written and read by
using command line tools on servers. Using your account on sirius.info.ucl.ac.be use
the /bin/mail command line tool to send an email to yourself on this host. This server stores local
emails in the /var/mail directory with one file per user. Check with /bin/more the content of your
mail file and try to understand which lines have been added by the server in the header of your
email

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