Platform SDK: CDO for Windows 2000

About Simple Internet (RFC 822) Messages

This section briefly describes the format of the simple Internet message. For the original in-depth description, see RFC 822 itself http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc822.txt.

RFC 822 messages have two major parts:

This structure can be seen in the following illustration:

You can identify the headers and body within the contents of the sample Internet mail message in the following topic.