Simple Mail Transfer Protocol - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

• Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
• Post Office Protocol (POP)

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