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  2. Email address - Wikipedia

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    An email address identifies an email box to which messages are delivered. While early messaging systems used a variety of formats for addressing, today, email addresses follow a set of specific rules originally standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in the 1980s, and updated by RFC 5322 and 6854 .

  3. Email - Wikipedia

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    Email is a ubiquitous and very widely used communication medium; in current use, an email address is often treated as a basic and necessary part of many processes in business, commerce, government, education, entertainment, and other spheres of daily life in most countries.

  4. Email box - Wikipedia

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    A mailbox name is the first part of an email address, also known as local-part; that is, the part before the @ symbol. Its format is formally specified by RFC 5322 and RFC 5321. It is often the username of the recipient on the mail server or in the destination domain. The local-part may be up to 64 characters long and, in theory, is case-sensitive.

  5. Mailing list - Wikipedia

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    Mailing list. A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients. The term is often extended to include the people subscribed to such a list, so the group of subscribers is referred to as "the mailing list", or simply "the list".

  6. Email client - Wikipedia

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    An email client, email reader or, more formally, message user agent (MUA) or mail user agent is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email. A web application which provides message management, composition, and reception functions may act as a web email client , and a piece of computer hardware or software whose primary or most ...

  7. Internet Message Access Protocol - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In computing, the Internet Message Access Protocol ( IMAP) is an Internet standard protocol used by email clients to retrieve email messages from a mail server over a TCP/IP connection. [1] IMAP is defined by RFC 9051 . IMAP was designed with the goal of permitting complete management of an email box by multiple email clients, therefore ...

  8. LISTSERV - Wikipedia

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    The term Listserv (styled by the registered trademark licensee, L-Soft International, Inc., as LISTSERV) has been used to refer to electronic mailing list software applications in general, but is more properly applied to a few early instances of such software, which allows a sender to send one email to a list, which then transparently sends it on to the addresses of the subscribers to the list.

  9. URL - Wikipedia

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    A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), [2] [3] although many people use the two terms interchangeably. [4] [a] URLs occur most commonly to reference web pages ( HTTP / HTTPS) but are also used for file transfer ( FTP ), email ( mailto ), database access ( JDBC ), and many other applications.