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Authenticated Post Office Protocol. Similar to the Post Office Protocol (POP), but instead of using a plaintext password for authentication, it uses an encoding of the password together with a challenge string (MD5).

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Mail Transfer Agent: The application that uses SMTP to move an e-mail message to another MTA until message reaches the addressee's computer, where the message is delivered.

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Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol: Extended version of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), which includes additional functionality such as delivery notification and session delivery. ESMTP is described in RFC 1869, SMTP Service Extensions.

Beam

The application's main window has a three-panel view:

- Mailfolder-view (left): Showing the folder-hierarchy of the mailbox.es
- Mailref-view (top-right): Showing info about all mails of selected mail-folder
- Mailview(bottom-right): Showing headers, attachments and contents of selected mail.Mailfolder-view

Beam lets you categorize your mail in main folders and sub folders, as for instance:

Mailref-view
Lists out the content of a Mailfolder.

Mailview
By choosing a listed mail in the Mailref window, the mailview-window will show both the mail headers and content.

The mail's headers is by default shown in simple mode, only showing information about Subject, From, Date, To, Cc and User-Agent. In full mode all headers are shown:

There is a standard format for e-mail messages (RFC-2822). The Request For Comments enables you to read old mails also in the future, and secures that you can read the message with any kind of e-mail client.

The fields the RFC defines (From:, To:, Cc: etc.) are all in English, and can not be translated. Other wise a French e-mail client wouldn't be able to show an e-mail written in a German e-mail client.

When you look at the header in full view, you will find the Received filed. It contains time stamps of when the mail passed a specific e-mail server on it's way to the finale destination. You will also notice that most mails pass through many e-mail servers, and that they are all shown in the Received field. This field should be read backwards. The first server that handled the mail, will be in the very end of the field, just as the last server handling will be in the beginning of the field.

The job-status window which pops up whenever Beam is retrieving mail, sending mail or moving a lot of mails around. Every job has its own subview in here, which can be made to show/hide dynamically, just as jobs come and go.

### Preferences

The general preferences page, where you can edit general GUI options, as well as control performance and timing.

#### General Options

Enabling Cache mailfolders (on disk) will make the application respond faster.

As Beam's user interface cover most of your workspace, you can set it to open on a specific workspace: Current or 1- 9.

You can also enable Beam's Deskbar replicant from the General Options.

Beam also gives you the option to choose another folder for your mail than the default folder that Zeta sets up for you (/boot/home/mail), and to set it as the preferred application for email, which is something you can read more about in FileTypes.

#### Shortcuts

Beam comes with a long list of shortcuts, which makes your mailhandling really fast.

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