Re: OT: Vista


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"Nate" <nsaptaemcscpnanm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The OS will communicate in terms of SMTP, or another e-mail protocol.
Those protocols did not change in Vista. If the workstation has an
issue communicating it would likely be with the server that serves the
e-mail protocol (services). But it is VERY unlikely that Chuck's
computer even talked to his friend's computer...let alone communicated
with it. I would think he has a firewall.

Nate

You're saying that in some circumstances two computers
sending/receiving email have "direct" contact?

I'm saying in most cases they do not have direct connection.

However...there are cases where two computers would communicate e-mail
directly. Both would need to have a protocol service running to
transport the message...or it would have to send in straight text...a
simple file level command...copy/paste.

Nate

So in simple terms, the email service most of us use, the
sending/receiving PCs do not directly communicate.


I would say that is accurate.

In my case...my PC uses an application to generate an e-mail. Be it OE,
Outlook, Mozila...whatever app it is...it generates a message and then
creates a package to send to the SMTP server. That server uses DNS to
route the message to another server. The message package is transmitted
across the network and decoded at the other end. The decoded mesaage is
then sent from the receiving server on to a client on that network. That
client would need an e-mail reader application to open the message.

In a sense, the two clients are communicating. The applications on those
two clients will need to open and understand the package. That is
typically not an OS level issue though. It's an application. So you have
OS, client applications, server applications and services all running in
this communications scenerio. And that is keeping it simple.

Nate


My only intended point was no "direct" communications.


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