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MX or Mail Exchangers are database records
Particulars of domain names of mail server with
SMTP responsible for a domain or a block of domains.

 


 

Notes:
The Glossary here is related to the process of electronic mail, they are not arranged in alphabetically order but group together for user easy references.


IP address ie:
151.196.75.10 and not mydomain.com
IP address are numeric numbers
that represents a location on the internet, most web site has a domain name; ie: mydomain.com linked to an IP Address that emails can be sent to.

DNS (Domain Name System) is a distributed domain based naming system database that can be query to identify administers of an IP address--which is a string of numbers, ie: 207.151.159.3 and translated into a string of "letters" called Domain Name -- see an example (below) here:
IP address 207.151.159.3 Domain Name www.internic.net

Notes: The DNS server IP Address has nothing to do with the process of email message delivery, it merely serves to turn the IP address--a series of four 8 bit numbers, ie: 207.151.159.3 into a domain name www.internic.net - that's all.

Email Daemon - An email software program residing in a mail server that manages incoming and outgoing mails.

 

Mailto: - is an URL (Uniform Resource Locator) that consist of some "Text" followed by the "colon" -- a communication protocol that tells (mail clients or web-browser) program residing in a computer what to do. By using the mailto: command mailto:support@mails.broadcast.com it will be translated as a dynamic email address by all mail clients.

 

Soft bounced refers to; mailbox full, mail server down, network busy (ie: 500, 501 Syntax Error) etc.
See: SMTP codes command group

 

Hard bounced refers to non-existing users (ie: 550, 554, address not allowed or Requested action not taken) Mail servers or email clients that have filtering device can stimulate and return mails as hard bounced.
See: SMTP return codes error

 

TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
creates a connection between sender and receiver using port numbers for a particular device; ie: SMTP Port 25

 

 


 

IP - Internet Protocol prepares a packet (datagram) for transmission across the Internet with the IP header encapsulated. The IP packet is then passed to the next layer where further network information is encapsulated onto it.

 

Protocol a method of sending and receiving data.

 

Open relay - mail server that allows anyone to use it to relay emails anywhere (normally, hijacked by spammers) for relaying mails to hundred of thousands or millions of recipients.

 

POP3 - Post Office Protocol Version 3 rfc1939 used for delivering messages to (client) mail readers (fetch mails from a remote mail server and store it locally). The email client sends a login (UserID) and a password to authenticate the session. If accepted--the mail client send commands to retrieve messages, then the server transfers the messages and deletes them from the mailbox.


MIME
- Multimedia Internet Mail Encoding, are the standards for describing email messages being sent over the Internet and specified by: rfc822, rfc2045, rfc2046 and rfc2047 reference available at: www.imc.org/rfc822

 

IMAP4 - Internet Message Access Protocol Version 4 are used, to hold email messages and allows users to view message heading www.imc.org/rfc2060 or www.imap.org

IMAP4 allows a client mail program to access and manipulate email messages on a remote mail server as if they were local, without the need to download the message or to deliver the message to mail readers and IMAP4 can also relay email message to SMTP mail servers using POP3

 

 

 

 

APOP is a POP3 setting that encrypts your username and password, an authentication mechanism designed to protect your POP3 account password when checking mail.

 

MX or Mail Exchangers are database records (registered domains in the "server identity" bank) particulars of domain names of mail server running with SMTP responsible for a domain or a block of domains.

 

Mail readers - or mail user agents allows you to read emails residing in your remote mail server mailbox, or to retrieve it into your computer with a mail client.

 

Mailbox - each mailbox is assigned a unique address ie: mymail@mydomain.com character string which identifies the user to whom the mail is to be sent. Mailboxes normally reside on mail servers that are always connected to the Internet and mails are retrieved by the user mail client from the remote mail servers using (POP3) Post Office Protocol

 

Mail readers or mail user agents allows you to read emails in your mailbox on the mail server or on your pcs.

 

User Agent - A program (ie: Eudora) or editor that let users create, edit, compose, store and send mails to a mail server, polls a mail server for mails, download and display mails, as well as using POP3 to talk to mail servers. Basically, the function of emails consist of 2 parts--User Agent and--MTA --that prepares and send emails.

 

MTA - Message Transfer Agent the exchange of mail using TCP/IP is performed by MTA that defines how email messages are transmitted between two users.

 

MAC (Media Access Control) manages one of the sublayers handles access to shared media.
MAC address (are 6 bytes long and are controlled by the IEEE). It is a standardized data link layer address that is required for every port or device that connects to a LAN. Other devices in the network use these addresses to locate specific ports in the network and to create and update routing tables and data structures. MAC address is also known as;
Hardware address, MAC-layer address or Physical address.

 

ARP - Address Resolution Protocol translates an IP packet address into a MAC layer address so that frames can be delivered to a LAN destination workstation.

 

NAT - Network Address Translation allows a router that represent an entire LAN to the Internet--to act as a single IP address. When a packet is sent-out from a LAN the NAT interface changes the internal address to a global IP address. Since a LAN cannot be seen from the outside, the internal IP addresses need not be registered. The normal range of private addresses:
10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255  See Private Network

 

Firewall - A hardware or software device which regulates data flowing into and out-of a private network.


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Dig tool, requests all the DNS records for a host or domain

Finger a program used as one of the standard Internet protocols (rfc 1288) for retrieving Internet user info.

Traceroute tool, finds the route packets take between you and the selected address

PING - Packets Internet Groper are utilities that send data packets (datagram of around 536 bytes (4,288 bits) to a remote computer and request a respond--then wait for the respond and report the time it takes for the datagram return. It also check if the IP address is valid and reachable, if after a predetermined time, the packet does not return, PING command will return with "destination host unreachable".

Whois tool, contact network registries to find out contact information for the current domain or IP address.

nslookup - a DNS whois tool that perform forward/reverse DNS queries for a domain address and getting an IP address of a hostname and hostname of the IP address.

IP Block tool, multiple server lookup to find owner of the block of domain or IP address.

SMTP Relay Verify (checking) tool, to find out whether a SMTP server is insecure--therefore allowing anyone to relay email through it.

 

Telnet - A program that allows a user to remotely login into a distant and remote computer site (usually a password and login ID is required).

 

Throughput - The outgoing & incoming datagram (bits & bytes) between; Your computer, ISPs connection and the Internet network.

 

MaxMtu (MTU) Maximum Transmission Unit - is the default packet Windows uses to negotiate when a connection is opened between two computers, they must agree on an MTU by comparing MTU and selecting the smaller of the two. If it is set too large for routers, it is then fragmented into packet size and can take double the amount of time it takes to send a single packet.

 

UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter Data flow between the serial port and the modem is governed by a UART chip, which can contain no data buffers, single-byte data buffers or 16-byte data buffers. All data flows between the serial port and the modem via the UART

 

 

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RWIN
(TCP Receive Window)
determines how much data the receiving computer is prepared to receive. RWIN value that is set too high will result in greater data loss if the packet is lost or damaged in transit. RWIN value that is set too low will produce poor throughput.

 

MSS (Maximum Segment Size) is the largest segment of TCP data that Winsock is prepared to receive on a particular connection. When the TCP connection is initially established, both use the minimum of each other's MSS value. If the MSS is too low, the data/header ratio will be low. If the MSS is too high, will lead to large IP datagram and the packets will tend to fragment in transit where other networks may be having smaller MaxMtu - Hence, performance can be increase by reducing MSS value.

 

TTL-Time To Live, is a field in the IP header which indicates how long a packet should be allowed to survive before it is discarded. TTL essentially determines the maximum number of hops permitted.

 

ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol is used by routers and nodes to perform error reporting for Internet Protocol. It report errors such as invalid IP address, invalid port address, and the packet has hops too many times.

 

RFC -  Request For Comments, a series of officially defined technical documentation on Internet standards.

 

SMTP - Simple Mail Transport Protocol a protocol governing email transmission and reception (sending and receiving emails between mail servers).

 

SMTP return error codes lists

 

Winsock Error Codes - return error codes by Windows Sockets API WSAGetLastErrorcall lists.

 

ESMTP, SMTP Connect and Data Receive, Reply Codes Command Groups lists

 

Port Numbers are services that a machine performs by a program by listening on a port. A port number is actually a number between 1 and 65535 which identifies to the receiving computer what function you want it to perform.

 

Router or gateway is a hardware device that forwards packets from one network to another. IP uses a routing table to determine which networks that packets can be forwarded to and will only forward them to networks that it has been configured to do so.

 

Server-time-out - The sending and receiving mail server are busy and having different timeouts, when one of them gives up while the other is still trying--resulting in the connection being terminated unexpectedly. Or the "receiving or sending" mail server terminate the connection due to imposed limits by time or quantity of mails.

 

Mail Host - An Internet SMTP mail server computer on which mailboxes reside. Each host has a mail server which can receive mails and store them--for delivery (relay) to corresponding mailboxes or internal mailboxes.

 

Mail server receive, stores and transmits email, it is a computer that is independent of your PCs and sitting somewhere in a building--managed by your Internet Service Provider or corporate IT department. You can use any PCs to get at the Mail Server for sending or receiving email from any location.

 

Email exploders - Software programs that maintain mailing lists in a database that receive emails and forward them to each member in the list.

 

Email gateway - A computer dedicated to processing emails to manage and maintain large mailing lists database without human intervention, ie: auto receive and forwards mails, users subscriptions or unsubscribe, etc.

 

Listserv - A software program used for creating and managing Internet mailing lists, ie: An individual sends an email to a listserv, it then sends a copy of the message to all listserv members.

 

Server - A computer that serves other computers. A Host server stores web sites.

 

sendmail - A software program for sending emails.

 

Command - is a request for mail service action sent by the sender SMTP to the receiver SMTP

 

UDP - User Datagram Protocol, transport protocol used in place of TCP for wireless connection applications, it also encapsulates a "simple" header onto an application packet.

 

FTP - File Transfer Protocol, are commands for software programs that let users transfer files across the Internet (upload or download files). The most common ways to access a FTP is through a "browser", an FTP program or by issuing FTP commands at a text-based command prompt.

 

ISP - Internet Service Provider a company that provides any kind of access to the Internet, such as dial-up modem, cable modem, hosting, etc.

 

Web server - A host that store web pages or sites and wait for a browser to opens a connection that request a specific page, it then send a copy of the requested item and closes the connection.

 

URL - Uniform Resource Locator consist of some "Text" followed by the "colon" -- it is a communication protocol that tells a (ie: web-browser, email clients) program residing in a computer what to do.

 

HTTP - Hyper Text Transport Protocol. URL is entered into a browser--it asks DNS for the IP Address using the IP name in the URL, makes a TCP connection to port 80 of a remote host specified by the IP address, connect to the web server, send a GET command and the web server sends the webpage, the browser close the TCP connection and displays the webpage.

 

 

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