Listen "S1:E1: How does email travel?"
Episode Synopsis
Question for the day: "When I send an email, how does that email get from my email to yours?”
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
0:35 - Post office analogy
2:20 - Post office to email connection
3:10 - Computer 'client' and ‘server’
4:05 - Addressing an email
9:00 - Email messages get broken up into packets
13:35 - DNS: Turning an email address into an IP address
16:00 - DNS servers; the phone book of the internet
20:30 - SMTP server; local post office. Email journey is email server to email server.
25:45 - Role of MTA
29:30 - Gateways: "highway” part of the information super highway.
31:10 - How SMTP deals with lost information
33:20 - There is no umpire for the internet
34:38 - Recap and preview for Episode 2
Terms you will hear and learn include:
Router, gateway, MTA, IP addresses, DNS, Client and Server, Packets
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
0:35 - Post office analogy
2:20 - Post office to email connection
3:10 - Computer 'client' and ‘server’
4:05 - Addressing an email
9:00 - Email messages get broken up into packets
13:35 - DNS: Turning an email address into an IP address
16:00 - DNS servers; the phone book of the internet
20:30 - SMTP server; local post office. Email journey is email server to email server.
25:45 - Role of MTA
29:30 - Gateways: "highway” part of the information super highway.
31:10 - How SMTP deals with lost information
33:20 - There is no umpire for the internet
34:38 - Recap and preview for Episode 2
Terms you will hear and learn include:
Router, gateway, MTA, IP addresses, DNS, Client and Server, Packets
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