Editing Internet security (section)

====Background====
[[Email]] messages are composed, delivered, and stored in a multiple step process, which starts with the message's composition. When a message is sent, it is transformed into a standard format according to <nowiki>RFC 2822</nowiki>.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Resnick|first=Peter W.|editor-first1=P |editor-last1=Resnick |title=Internet Message Format|url=https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822.html|access-date=2021-05-01|website=tools.ietf.org|year=2001 |doi=10.17487/RFC2822 |language=en|doi-access=free}}</ref> Using a network connection, the mail client sends the sender's identity, the recipient list and the message content to the server. Once the server receives this information, it forwards the message to the recipients.