Help with starting on SMTP and IMAP

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Hello,

Can anyone please point me to a good source where I can read about how mail works. Because I am thinking of creating an web email client for my university project.

Thank you very much.

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Posted 15-Mar-11 9:35am

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Albin Abel · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-15T10:17:00

If you going to use PHP then their manual is the starting point

http://php.net/manual/en/book.imap.php[^]

http://www.phpclasses.org/package/2351-PHP-Access-IMAP-mailboxes-without-PHP-IMAP-extension.html[^]

If c# enough examples here

http://www.example-code.com/csharp/imap.asp[^]

Is your browser restricted for google?

More here

http://email.about.com/cs/standards/a/smtp.htm[^]

http://www.intelligentedu.com/computer_security_for_everyone/9-how-email-systems-work.html[^]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protocol[^]