Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

The TCP/IP model (RFC 1122)
Application Layer
Transport Layer
Internet Layer
Link Layer


Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet communication protocol used to send and relay an email message between email servers. It is not used to retrieve email messages from a server. Instead either IMAP or POP is used to retrieve email messages.

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