41 220-902 A+ 2.6 Configuring Email on Mobile Devices
Microsoft Exchange
Enterprise email - Not a service for the home More than just email - Contacts, Calendars, Reminders Integrates with mobile device database - Integrated contacts, calendars, etc.
Commercial email providers
Gmail - Google email, splits inbox into tabs, IMAP, POP3 Yahoo Mail - IMAP and POP3 support Outlook.com - Microsoft free personal email, IMAP and POP3 support iCloud Mail - Apple Mail, IMAP support only
S/MIME
One nice feature of Microsoft Exchange is that encryption is built in using
POP3, IMAP
Retrieving email messages from a mail server
Email configurations
Retrieving mail - POP3, IMAP Sending mail - SMTP Corporate email - Microsoft Exchange Integrated commercial providers - Google, Yahoo, Outlook.com, iCloud
- Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions - Encrypt and digitally sign emails that you're transmitting
S/MIME stands for and what does it do
SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Standard Protocol to send email Send mail from a device to a mail server - Or between mail servers - You usually must send from a local or trusted server Authentication usually required - May be different credentials than the incoming mail
IMAP IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is a popular protocol for email retrieval.
Which of the following protocols would commonly be used for a mobile device to retrieve email messages? IMAP SMTP SNMP SSH RTP
S/MIME S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is a common email standard for encrypting and digitally signing email messages between an email sender and recipient.
Which of the following will encrypt and digitally sign email messages? SMTP IMAPS POP3S S/MIME AES
Digital signature validation of an email message S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) provides integrated message encryption for email messages. It's common to use both encryption and digital signatures when S/MIME is integrated into an email client.
Which of these features would be enabled through the use of S/MIME on your mobile device? Encrypted wireless communication Automatic cloud-based backups Mobile applications are aware of your geographical Digital signature validation of an email message Send outgoing messages directly to a dedicated email server
SMTP SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is commonly used for outgoing email messages and sending emails between email servers.
Which of these would be the best choice for sending email from a mobile device? SMTP HTTPS POP3 IMAP SNMP
Send mail from your mobile device to an email server An SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server configuration is used on a mobile device to send emails from the mobile device. You would commonly configure POP3 or IMAP for incoming emails
Which of these would be the most likely reason for configuring an SMTP server address on a mobile device? Download mail from your email account to the mobile device Enable remote wipe functionality Send mail from your mobile device to an email server Manage the mobile device from a mobile device manager Integrates with the corporate email server
tcp/993 IMAP over SSL, or IMAPS, commonly uses TCP port 993 to communicate between the client and server.
Which port number is commonly used by IMAPS? tcp/143 tcp/993 tcp/443 tcp/8080 tcp/995
SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
sending mail
- Email, server, domain, username, password
to configure Microsoft exchange on your mobile device you need
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
- Access mail on a central server, tcp/143 - Mail is generally stored on the server but Supports folders and server-side searching Network ports -are Defined by your mail provider SSL (Secure Socket Layer) settings - POP3S: tcp/995, IMAPS: tcp/993
Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3)
- Used for downloading mail to local mail client, tcp/110 - Downloads and (optionally) deletes from server