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  2. Message transfer agent - Wikipedia

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    A message transfer agent receives mail from either another MTA, a mail submission agent (MSA), or a mail user agent (MUA). The transmission details are specified by the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). When a recipient mailbox of a message is not hosted locally, the message is relayed, that is, forwarded to another MTA.

  3. AP World History: Modern - Wikipedia

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    In 2012, the head of AP Grading, Trevor Packer, stated that the reason for the low percentages of 5s is that "AP World History is a college-level course, & many sophomores aren't yet writing at that level." 10.44 percent of all seniors who took the exam in 2012 received a 5, while just 6.62 percent of sophomores received a 5.

  4. History of email - Wikipedia

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    The history of email entails an evolving set of technologies and standards that culminated in the email systems in use today. [1]Computer-based messaging between users of the same system became possible following the advent of time-sharing in the early 1960s, with a notable implementation by MIT's CTSS project in 1965.

  5. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol - Wikipedia

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    Standards such as Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions were developed to encode binary files for transfer through SMTP. Mail transfer agents (MTAs) developed after Sendmail also tended to be implemented 8-bit clean, so that the alternate "just send eight" strategy could be used to transmit arbitrary text data (in any 8-bit ASCII-like character ...

  6. Postfix (software) - Wikipedia

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    Postfix is a free and open-source mail transfer agent (MTA) that routes and delivers electronic mail. It is released under the IBM Public License 1.0 which is a free software license . Alternatively, starting with version 3.2.5, it is available under the Eclipse Public License 2.0 at the user's option.

  7. Mail - Wikipedia

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    So in the U.K., the Royal Mail delivers the post, while in North America both the U.S. Postal Service and Canada Post deliver the mail. The term email, short for "electronic mail", first appeared in the 1970s. [4] [5] The term snail mail is a retronym to distinguish it from the quicker email. Various dates have been given for its first use. [6 ...

  8. Email attachment - Wikipedia

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    Originally, ARPANET, UUCP, and Internet SMTP email allowed 7-bit ASCII text only. Text files were emailed by including them in the message body. In the mid 1980s text files could be grouped with UNIX tools such as bundle [1] [2] and shar (shell archive) [3] and included in email message bodies, allowing them to be unpacked on remote UNIX systems with a single shell command.

  9. Social system - Wikipedia

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    Parsons organized social systems in terms of action units, where one action executed by an individual is one unit. He defines a social system as a network of interactions between actors. [ 4 ] According to Parsons, social systems rely on a system of language, and culture must exist in a society in order for it to qualify as a social system. [ 4 ]