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+<!-- Initial Contributors:
+    Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+Contributors: 
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+<!DOCTYPE concept
+  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
+<concept id="GUID-2E253B30-2611-546D-AE5B-1752556FC8E8" xml:lang="en"><title>SMTP
+Concepts</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
+<p>This section section describes the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
+and its implementation on Symbian platform. </p>
+<section id="GUID-DBF1C87D-7360-54B7-8658-B6659BF77F06-GENID-1-8-1-16-1-1-6-1-7-1-4-1-2-2"><title>SMTP protocol</title> <p>SMTP
+is the most widely used protocol for sending emails. It is a text-based and <b>push</b> protocol
+that cannot <b>pull</b> messages from a remote server on demand. </p> <p>One
+or more recipients of a message are specified in a message along with the
+message text and other encoded objects. The message is then transferred to
+a remote server using a procedure of queries and responses between the client
+and server. Either an end-user's email client (Mail User Agent (MUA)) or a
+relaying server's Mail Transport Agents (MTA) can act as an SMTP client. The
+SMTP client initiates a TCP connection to SMTP server on port 25 (unless overridden
+by configuration). </p> <p>SMTP is more suitable for a machine permanently
+connected to the Internet. To retrieve messages only on demand, which is the
+most common requirement on a single-user computer, a mail client must use
+POP3 or IMAP4. POP3 is mostly preferred when single-user computers connected
+to the Internet only intermittently. </p> </section>
+<section><title>Symbian platform implementation of SMTP</title> <p>SMTP is
+a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) used to transfer emails to a SMTP server which
+then forwards them on to a specified destination. </p> <p>Sending an email
+generally consists of three phases: connect and authorise to server, send
+emails and quit. </p> <p>The SMTP component is responsible for sending email
+messages composed and stored in the Message Server’s Message Store. </p> <ol id="GUID-8FCD7F76-46FD-58E9-9EBA-B178B98F0782">
+<li id="GUID-A8B5A1FA-DE84-51E8-B2B3-B4FCD073E0D2"><p>The SMTP client initiates
+a connection with the SMTP server. Depending on the user’s email settings,
+this may have been initiated over a secure SSL/TLS socket on port 465. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-F18E9E52-DF7A-5127-B6DD-FB08663025E0"><p>Depending on how the
+user has configured the email settings and the capabilities of the SMTP server,
+SMTP authentication may also be required. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-74561ABB-4B7A-58E7-B79D-5473C3149476"><p>Mail <b>From</b> and
+recipient <b>To</b> are sent. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-7ABADE92-CAF1-524A-A8AB-288E9849BED1"><p>The message header fields
+for the email message stored in the Message Store are then transmitted, each
+one separated by a CRLF. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-7932B3D6-270F-5983-8521-8AC83C7AA450"><p>The last CRLF is sent
+to indicate the end of the RFC 2822 header. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-2A05FF85-4E42-5EEE-A2C5-4763C887E3D2"><p>The message body and
+encoded attachments are sent. </p> <p>The encoding format (uuencode or MIME,
+character sets) depends on the user’s email settings and locale. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-7040A4EB-AA7C-5932-B7FF-89595D9256D0"><p>Finally, the body is
+terminated by a CRLF. </p> <p>CRLF sequence, and the email is queued by the
+SMTP server for sending. </p> </li>
+</ol> </section>
+<section><title>SMTP example</title> <p>For more details on implementing the
+IMAP4 MTM functions, see <xref href="GUID-D73AD200-BE4D-50BF-BCF9-14627DE530B7.dita">example
+code</xref>. </p> </section>
+</conbody><related-links>
+<link href="GUID-4F703F85-080F-5B77-B94D-5449764828F3.dita"><linktext>SMTP MTM</linktext>
+</link>
+</related-links></concept>
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