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There are several core standards which form the foundation for sending and receiving email messages over the Internet and corporate intranets. These standards are defined in documents called RFCs (Request For Comments) which describe how the various protocols should be implemented. The following standards were used when implementing the email related controls in the SocketTools ActiveX Edition: RFC 822 documents the basic structure of email messages, including
how messages should be formatted and what the standard message header
fields are. RFC 2045 documents Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
(MIME), which details how more complicated messages are structured.
File attachments, HTML formatted messages and other more complex
aspects of message composition are covered by the MIME standard. The
Internet Mail control supports both RFC 822 and MIME formatted email
messages, including multipart messages which contain alternate text and
file attachments.
RFC 3501 documents the Internet Message Access Protocol v4 (IMAP4)
which is used to manage information in a user's mailbox on the server.
Unlike the Post Office Protocol, where messages are downloaded and
processed on the local system, the messages on an IMAP4 server are
retained on the server and processed remotely. This is ideal for users
who need access to a centralized store of messages or have limited
bandwidth.
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