Email Fundamentals, IMAP4, and LDAP
- Session Length: 1 day(s)
- Platform: All
- Intended Audience: Technology Professionals
- Description: Email continues to become more widely used and crucial to the daily
operations in running your school. This session starts out with some background
information on the way the email is sent, received, and viewed along with the standards
and technologies that make this all possible. Next, we will do some hands-on activities
using an IMAP4 client. IMAP4 is supported on the NOACSC Alpha computer. Its primary
advantage is that it gives you a graphical view of your email messages while keeping the
messages intact on the machine serving as the mail host. That allows you or those in your
buildings that use the NOACSC Alpha to work with email either via a text based or
graphical interface while all messages stay on a machine where they are backed up nightly.
LDAP will be the last topic of the day. LDAP is an Internet based directory service that
allows you to search for and find information about people listed in those directories.
Session Outline:
- TCP and UDP Ports - what are they and why do they matter?
- The delivery mechanism - SMTP (TCP:25)
- The client access mechanisms - POP3 (TCP:110), IMAP (TCP:143), character based, and web
based clients
- Putting it all together - how does a message go from here to there?
- What about attachments?
- Deciding on which client to use - the advantages and disadvantages of each
- Configuring and using IMAP4
- Internet Directory Services - LDAP (TCP:389)
- Why would I want to know about and even use LDAP?
- Searching LDAP from my IMAP client and from a web browser.
- LDAP Server Options
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