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Electronic Mail
SEE ALSO Magazines • Associations on the NetResources in this category:
- Anatomy of a Header
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/zen/zen-1.0_4.html#SEC1... - A description of the different lines of the heading information of an electronic mail message, including From:, Received:, Date:, Message-ID:, To:, CC: and Subject:. Part of the HTMLized version of Zen and the Art of the Internet.
- College E-Mail Addresses
http://www.cs.queensu.ca/FAQs/email/college.html - Provides a vehicle for searching, as well as a guide to finding, electronic mail addresses for students, faculty and staff at colleges and universities worldwide.
- Decoding Internet Attachments
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/decode.htm - This tutorial introduces you to the various attachment formats widely used on the Internet for sending binary files along with email and Usenet postings, such as Uuencode, MIME, Base64, Quoted-Printable, BinHex, and others. It also discusses how various email and Usenet readers deal with attachments.
- Filtering Mail FAQ
http://www.ii.com/internet/faqs/launchers/mail/filtering-faq... - All the gory details about how to filter your incoming e-mail.
- Free Email Address Directory
http://www.emailaddresses.com/ - A well put together and thorough guide to free e-mail services on the Internet (mostly Web-based). Each entry has a description of the features for the service, and users are invited to post comments. Includes guides for beginners.
- Internet Address Finder
http://www.iaf.net/ - Directory of personal e-mail addresses. Searchable by name, organization and domain, or reverse look-up by e-mail address.
- Meta-Email-Search-Agent
http://mesa.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/ - "For a given name (last name is required, first name is optional) it searches in parallel at (nearly) all available sources of email addresses on the Internet. However, be always aware that there is NO complete directory of all email addresses. So if you can not find the address here, it might nevertheless exist." Databases searched are: ESP; IAF; Infospace; suchen.de; DejaNews; Four11; Bigfoot.
- Using the Unix Mail Program - OIT Help Desk
http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/topics/email/os/unix/berkeley/48... - Berkeley Mail is the program which is often the default mail reader on UNIX platforms, invoked by typing "mail" at the UNIX prompt. This is a link to an online manual for using UNIX mail.
- Yahoo! People Search
http://people.yahoo.com/ - Find people by searching for telephone numbers (United States only) and e-mail addresses.
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