: Sender: Message Composition and
: Applications of the Receiver-Pull
: Applications of the Receiver-Pull
In the SIRP based email delivery system, senders cannot directly push
messages to arbitrary receivers. Instead, receivers decide if and
when they want to retrieve (or pull) messages from
senders. Figure 2
illustrates the basic architecture of the new email delivery system.
In the following we will present the new system from both the senders'
and receivers' perspectives. Before we delve into details, it is worth
noting that the new system extends the current Simple Mail Transfer
Protocol (SMTP) [9] by adding two new commands: MSID and
GTML. In other words, all the commands
and reply codes in SMTP are also supported in the new system. We will
explain the two new commands when we use them.