Week 6

Lecture

This week we went over a high level overview of mail systems and how they function and kind of how everything fits together.  Then we looked at the protocols in more depth.  We looked at how they function and some of the messages involved.

What I Did

I made an effort to try to read through the actual protocols, not completely in depth, but enough to get a good feel as to how and why things are were they are.  I also tried to make mail captures of my own using tcpdump on shadow0, but I had trouble sending email from that machine.  I also tried to send email by manually entering commands specified by the protocols.