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SUMMARY:Electronic mail - Matthew Arnold\, Sidney Sussex College
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CONTACT:Matthew Ireland
DESCRIPTION:We all use email\, but have you ever wondered how it actually 
 works? In this talk we shall explore what happens after you press "Send": 
 the journey of an email\, including why we use multiple intermediate mail 
 servers and what happens at each hop\, before focusing on SMTP and IMAP4. 
 I shall also be answering the question of what an email actually is\, by d
 iscussing the changing standards for the Internet Message Format and seein
 g how the current format is restricted by legacy systems. Lastly\, I shall
  give an overview of the development and current state of our University
 ’s email system: this will include overhauls from the past\, their simpl
 e but effective approach to load balancing and failure recovery\, a compar
 ison with other Universities and\, finally\, the worrying prospect of the 
 death of Hermes.
LOCATION:Wolfson Hall\, Churchill College
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