Can you tell me what a smtp is?

Question

Can you tell me what a smtp is?

Answer 1

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is a set of rules that describe how two computers should communicate to transfer email over a network.

You probably want to know what SMTP server to use, that is the name of the machine which takes email you send and gets it to its destination. You find it out by asking your email service provider.

Answer 2

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

Wiki has all the in depth information you may like to know:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail...

Answer 3

SMTP = Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.  

Answer 4

It stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol - it's a protocol for sending email throughout the internet.

Answer 5

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a de facto standard for electronic mail (e-mail) transmissions across the Internet. Formally SMTP was first defined in RFC 821



(STD 10) as amended by RFC 1123



(STD 3) chapter 5. The protocol in widespread use today is also known as extended SMTP (ESMTP) and defined in RFC 2821



. An update of this standard is currently (2008) pending approval in the IETF.[1][2]

While electronic mail server software uses SMTP to send and receive mail messages, user-level client mail applications typically only use SMTP for sending messages to a mail server for relaying. For receiving messages, client applications usually use either the Post Office Protocol (POP) or the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) to access their mail box accounts on a mail server.