Glossary of Data Communications Terms

Courtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc.

Term: Email message (RFC # 822)
Definition: A message consists of header fields and, optionally, a body. The body is simply a sequence of lines containing ASCII characters. It is separated from the headers by a null line (i.e., a line with nothing preceding the CRLF).

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