The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard communication protocol for electronic mail transmission. Mail servers and other message...
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The Local Mail Transfer Protocol (LMTP) is an alternative to (Extended) Simple Mail Transfer Protocol for situations where the receiving side does not...
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computer to another using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. In some contexts, the alternative names mail server, mail exchanger, or MX host are used...
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Email address (redirect from E-mail addresses)
transmission of electronic mail from the author's computer and between mail hosts in the Internet uses the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), defined in RFC 5321...
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Email (redirect from Electronic Mail)
submission protocol, a profile of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), to send the message content to the local mail submission agent (MSA), in this case...
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SOAP (redirect from Simple Object Access Protocol)
application layer protocols, most often Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), although some legacy systems communicate over Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP),...
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History of email (section Host-based mail systems)
became the world's largest selling email system. The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) protocol was implemented on the ARPANET in 1983. LAN email systems...
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connected to local networks. The resulting protocol was NNTP, which resembled the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) but was tailored for exchanging newsgroup...
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SMTPS (redirect from Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Secure)
SMTPS (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Secure) is a method for securing the SMTP using transport layer security. It is intended to provide authentication...
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running on the internet protocol suite and using Internet protocols such as FTP, TCP/IP, HTML, and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Intranets are generally...
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Email authentication (redirect from E-mail Authentication)
of email submission and retrieval. In the early 1980s, when Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) was designed, it provided for no real verification of...
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open mail relay is a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server configured in such a way that it allows anyone on the Internet to send e-mail through...
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is a text-based protocol, incorporating many elements of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). A call established...
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Email client (redirect from Mail user agent)
(MSA) Mailto Message delivery agent (MDA) Message transfer agent (MTA) Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Text-based email client C. Hutzler; D. Crocker; P...
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Message submission agent (redirect from Mail Submission Agent)
cooperates with a mail transfer agent (MTA) for delivery of the mail. It uses ESMTP, a variant of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), as specified...
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MIME (redirect from Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension)
standard protocols, such as the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), the Post Office Protocol (POP), and the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)....
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Qmail (redirect from Quick Mail Transfer Protocol)
Quick Mail Transport Protocol (QMTP), an e-mail transmission protocol that is designed to have better performance than Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)...
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Application layer (redirect from Application protocol)
Message Block SMTP, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SNTP, Simple Network Time Protocol SSH, Secure Shell SSMS, Secure SMS Messaging Protocol TCAP, Transaction...
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SMTP Authentication (category Internet mail protocols)
Authentication, often abbreviated SMTP AUTH, is an extension of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) whereby a client may log in using any authentication...
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This is a list of Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) response status codes. Status codes are issued by a server in response to a client's request made...
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between different service providers, in the way that standard Simple Mail Transfer Protocol email currently does for store-and-forward email service, by...
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are those used by Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP); ports 80, 21, and 587...
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Connection-oriented communication (redirect from Connection-oriented protocol)
unreliable protocols.[citation needed] Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an example of a connection-oriented protocol in which, if a message is not delivered...
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SMTP proxies are specialized mail servers that, similar to other types of proxy servers, pass simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP) sessions through to other...
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MX record (redirect from Mail exchanger record)
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol RFC 7505 (2015), A "Null MX" No Service Resource Record for Domains That Accept No Mail Obsoletes: RFC 974 (1986), Mail...
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Bounce message (redirect from Bounced e-mail)
Mail (DKIM) Sender Rewriting Scheme (SRS) Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Variable envelope return path (VERP) RFC 5321 - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol...
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The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard communication protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client on a computer network...
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format. Historically, all mail transfer agents (MTAs) added their host name to the reverse path. In the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) this reverse path...
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Mailbox provider (redirect from E-mail service provider)
by implementing Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and possibly providing access to messages through Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), the Post...
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Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is an Internet standard protocol used by email clients to retrieve email messages from a mail server over a TCP/IP...
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