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The State of the Email Address
Overview Electronic mail is an unquestionably vital component of the Internet infrastructure. While the general perception of email is that it "just works," surprisingly little data is available to substantiate this claim. While SMTP is a mature technology of over twenty years, the architecture is increasingly strained by both normal and unsolicited load. This paper provides a greater understanding of the behavior of Internet email as a system using active measurement. In order to survey a significant, diverse, and representative set of Internet SMTP servers, a testing methodology is developed that provides an email "traceroute" mechanism. Using this mechanism, it measures email loss, latency, and errors over the course of a month to popular, random, and Fortune 500 domains.
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery | File Format | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Date Published | January 2005 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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