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Internet E-mail: Protocols, Standards, and Implementation ForacompletelistingoftheArtechHouseTelecommunicationsLibrary, turntothebackofthisbook. Internet E-mail: Protocols, Standards, and Implementation Lawrence Hughes Artech House Boston • London LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Hughes,LawrenceE. InternetE-mail:protocols,standards,andimplementation/ LawrenceHughes. p. cm.—(ArtechHousetelecommunicationslibrary) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-89006-939-5(alk.paper) 1.Electronicmailsystems. 2.Internet(Computernetwork) I.Title. II.Series TK5105.73.H84 1998 004.692—dc21 98-20082 CIP BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Hughes,Lawrence InternetE-mail:protocols,standards,andimplementation. —(ArtechHousetelecommunicationslibrary) 1.Electronicmailsystems 2.Internet(Computernetwork) I.Title 004.6’92 ISBN 0-89006-939-5 CoverandtextdesignbyDarrellJudd ©1998ARTECHHOUSE,INC. 685CantonStreet Norwood,MA02062 Allrightsreserved.PrintedandboundintheUnitedStatesofAmerica.Nopartof thisbookmaybereproducedorutilizedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronicor mechanical,includingphotocopying,recording,orbyanyinformationstorageand retrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublisher. Alltermsmentionedinthisbookthatareknowntobetrademarksorservice markshavebeenappropriatelycapitalized.ArtechHousecannotattesttotheaccu- racyofthisinformation.Useofaterminthisbookshouldnotberegardedas affectingthevalidityofanytrademarkorservicemark. InternationalStandardBookNumber:0-89006-939-5 LibraryofCongressCatalogCardNumber:98-20082 10987654321 ToDylanEdwinHughes,whowasbornduringthewritingofthisbook. MywifeisfromthePhilippines,andshereturnedthereforDylan’sbirth. Myfirstglimpseofmynewsonwasviaascanned-inJPEGimageattached toane-mailmessageandsenthalfwayaroundtheworldinamatterof seconds.Dylanwillgrowupinaworldofinstantglobalcommunication thatIcanscarcelyimagine.Ihopethisbookwillcontributeinsomesmall waytomakinghisworldthebestpossibleone. Contents Contents Preface xix 1 System architecture 1 Jargon 3 Multiusercomputer-basede-mailsystems 9 Shared-fileversusclient/servere-mailarchitecture 10 Shared-filee-mailarchitecture 10 Client/servere-mailarchitecture 12 Scalabilityofe-mailsystems 15 Standardsandinteroperability 18 Summary 19 2 Internet e-mail architecture 21 Jargon 22 Underlyingarchitecture(infrastructure) 27 Scalabilityissues 28 Basicmessageexchangefunctionality 31 Scenario1:senderandreceiveronthesamepostoffice 31 Scenario2:senderandreceiverondifferentpostoffices 33 3 Attachments and address books 37 vii viii InternetE-Mail:Protocols,Standards,andImplementation Jargon 38 Attachments 41 uuencode/uudecode:theUNIXattachmentstandard 42 BINHEX:the“Mac”attachmentstandard 48 MIME:theInternetstandard 49 Examplesofusingattachmentsine-mail 52 Addinganattachmentwithaseparateutility (uuencodeorBINHEX) 52 Addinganattachmentwitha UAthathasanembeddedattachmentfacility 53 Obtaininganattachedfilewithaseparateutility 53 ObtaininganattachedfilewithaUAthathasanembedded attachmentfacility 54 Addressbooks 54 Generalizeddirectoryservices 56 4 Basics of cryptography 59 Basicencryption 60 Jargon 61 Real-worldcryptographicalgorithms 70 Symmetrickeyblockciphers 70 Asymmetrickeyblockciphers 75 Messagedigestalgorithms 75 5 Applications of cryptography in messaging systems 77 Jargon 77 Howcryptographyisusedinmessagingsystems 78 Digitalenvelopes 81 Choosingasessionkey 83 Obtainingtherecipient’s publickey 85 Holisticsecurity 87 Contents ix Digitalsignatures 89 Keyservers 94 Sessionauthentication 100 Cryptographicauthenticationschemes 101 Authenticationmechanismalgorithms 102 Samples 107 6 Open e-mail versus proprietary systems 109 Standardsbodies 110 ISO 111 ITU 111 CCITT 111 IEEE 112 ANSI 112 NIST 112 IETF 112 Alegacyproprietarye-mailsystem:MSMail 113 Amodernproprietarye-mailsystem:Microsoft ExchangeServer 116 RelativemeritsofInternetMailversus proprietarysystems 118 Otheropene-mailstandards 122 7 TCP/IP: the Internet protocol suite 125 Networkaccesslayer 126 Ethernet10base2 129 Ethernet10base5 129 Ethernet10baseT 130 Ethernet100baseT 130 PPP 131 Software 131 Internetlayer 132 x InternetE-Mail:Protocols,Standards,andImplementation IP 132 ICMP 133 ARP 133 RARP 134 Host-to-hostlayer 134 TCP 134 UDP 135 Process/applicationlayer 135 FTP 135 Telnet 136 NNTP 136 HTTP 137 NFS 138 DNS 138 DHCP 139 SMTP 139 POP3 140 IMAP4 140 LDAP 140 Exampleofaddressresolution 141 IPAddresses 141 IPv6(alsoIPng) 143 MicrosoftNetBiosoverTCP/IP 144 DNS 147 8 HistoryofnameresolutiononIPnetworks 147 Jargon 150 PreparingtoinstallMicrosoftDNSServer 156 InstallingMicrosoftDNSServer 157 VerifyingyourMicrosoftDNSserverinstallation 162 Contents xi OtherDNSservers 164 Forfurtherstudy 164 9 Internet directory services 169 History 171 Finger 173 Ph 175 NICNAME/Whois 176 Whois++ 177 Present-daydirectoryservices 177 X.500 177 LDAP 181 ISODEX.500DSAwithLDAP 182 MicrosoftExchangeServerv5.x 183 ClientsupportforLDAP 185 10 Relevant Windows NT 5.0 innovations 187 ActiveDirectory 188 DistributedSecurityServices 191 MicrosoftInternetSecurityFramework 192 RelevanceofnewNT5.0technologytoe-mail 193 11 Firewalls and proxy servers 197 Jargon 199 MicrosoftProxyServer2.0 202 CheckPointFirewall-1 207 12 Network troubleshooting 211 Ping 212 Telnet 214 PerformanceMonitor 216 NetworkMonitor 218

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Aims to strengthen the reader's knowledge of the fundamental concepts and technical details necessary to develop, implement, or debug e-mail software. The text explains the underlying technology and describes the key Internet e-mail protocols and extensions such as SMTP, POP3, IMAP, MIME and DSN. It

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