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Old March 13th, 2005, 05:49 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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what is SMTP?

hey guys

i was wondering what SMTP is? i see it every so often...

i know it has something to do w/ email... but not quite sure what?

what are some smtp sites?
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Old March 13th, 2005, 05:52 PM     #2 (permalink)
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Old March 13th, 2005, 06:10 PM     #4 (permalink)
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SMTP is the actual protocol that internet email travels over.

napoleon.dynamite@techimo.com is an SMTP address
There are other mail transfer methods (X.400, CCMail MSMail (the latter two are obsolete) etc) but none of them work over the internet.
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I heard some one the other day call SMTP: Sending Mail To People.

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