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2002
Conference Paper
Titel
Active electronic mail
Abstract
Network infrastructures have evolved tremendously over the last years, offering new capabilities to the applications in higher levels. Email is a widely used communication tool that could benefit of an intelligent and active underlying network in order to support sophisticated services. We explore in this paper an infrastructure based on intelligent mobile agents and active networks, and point out how and where advanced features can be introduced to our current passive email platform in order to make it more flexible, open, secure, intelligent, and ubiquitous as possible.