Sunday, October 5, 2008

How Email Works

How E-mail works

  • An email is a piece of text that is being sent from one recipient to another using internet.
  • To send or receive an email you need an email client such as Microsoft Outlook
  • With the email client installed on your computer you need to connect to an email server using internet
  • The email server will have a list of email accounts, it would have a text file for each account in the list
  • When you compose a message and send it, the e-mail client would connect to the e-mail server and pass to the server the name of the recipient , the name of the sender and the body of the message
  • The server will format the whole message into .txt file
  • The email system consists of 2 servers: SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) and POP3 (Post Office Protocol)
  • SMTP server is responsible for handling the outgoing mail. It will deliver the message to the address and would simply hand the message over to POP3, which is responsible for ingoing messages
  • The message will be saved on POP3 as a text file and for the recipient to read the message, he will have to log onto POP3 server with his username and password

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