E-mail System Providing Integrated User's View for the Message containing Image and Text


The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society (1994 ~ 2000), Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 563-572, Feb. 1997
10.3745/KIPSTE.1997.4.2.563,   PDF Download:

Abstract

E-mail has been widely used for information delivery as an Internet service. As multimedia technologies are developed rapidly, most of the recent Internet information services support multimedia data. E-mail system also needs to support multimedia message. But Internet mail service using simple mail transfer protocol(SMTP) specified in RFC 821/822 handles only ASCII text messages represented with 7-bit code. Each line in the message has the length limitation as well. Those are why it cannot satisfy the diverse users' demands. Multipurpose Internet mail extensions(MIME), which is a modification and supplement of RFC 822, was proposed for supporting transportation of multimedia data. It can solve the limitations of sizes and types in contents of a message. In this study the E-mail system has been designed and implemented according to the MIME standard in order to solve the limitations of transportation of messages regardless of the message content type. Hypertext markup language(HTML) syntax is applied to the mail system, and so it is possible to display a message consisting of different media as an integrated form for the purpose of better understanding a message. No application program is needed for displaying a message including image data, and convenience for users is considered in this system. The future work is to improve the E-mail system so that it may support motion pictures and sound informations. Thereby the perfect multimedia E-mail system providing integrated user''s view will be developed.


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[IEEE Style]
D. S. Joon, L. T. Gyeun, L. H. Woo, Y. S. Hyun, L. S. Whan, K. C. Hun, K. T. Yun, "E-mail System Providing Integrated User's View for the Message containing Image and Text," The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society (1994 ~ 2000), vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 563-572, 1997. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTE.1997.4.2.563.

[ACM Style]
Dokko Seh Joon, Lee Taek Gyeun, Lee Hyung Woo, Yun Sung Hyun, Lee Seong Whan, Kim Chang Hun, and Kim Tai Yun. 1997. E-mail System Providing Integrated User's View for the Message containing Image and Text. The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society (1994 ~ 2000), 4, 2, (1997), 563-572. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTE.1997.4.2.563.