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SMTP Basics for IT Professionals

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is a set of communication guidelines that allow software to transmit electronic mail over the Internet. It provides a mail exchange between users on the same or different computers and supports sending a single message to one or more recipients, including text, voice, video or graphics. The main purpose of SMTP is to set up communication rules between servers to identify themselves and handle errors such as incorrect email addresses. It works by having the sender's user agent prepare and send the message to the sending MTA, which then transfers the mail across the network to the receiving MTA.

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SMTP Basics for IT Professionals

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is a set of communication guidelines that allow software to transmit electronic mail over the Internet. It provides a mail exchange between users on the same or different computers and supports sending a single message to one or more recipients, including text, voice, video or graphics. The main purpose of SMTP is to set up communication rules between servers to identify themselves and handle errors such as incorrect email addresses. It works by having the sender's user agent prepare and send the message to the sending MTA, which then transfers the mail across the network to the receiving MTA.

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SMTP(Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)

Introduction

SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.SMTP is a set of communication guidelines that
allow software to transmit an electronic mail over the internet is called Simple Mail Transfer
Protocol.It is a program used for sending messages to other computer users based on e-mail
addresses.It provides a mail exchange between users on the same or different computers, and it
also supports:It can send a single message to one or more recipients.Sending message can include
text, voice, video or graphics.It can also send the messages on networks outside the internet.

The main purpose of SMTP is used to set up communication rules between servers. The servers
have a way of identifying themselves and announcing what kind of communication they are trying
to perform. They also have a way of handling the errors such as incorrect email address. For
example, if the recipient address is wrong, then receiving server reply with an error
message of some kind.
Working of SMTP

• 1. Communication between the sender and the receiver : The sender’s user agent
prepares the message and sends it to the MTA. The MTA’s responsibility is to transfer the
mail across the network to the receiver’s MTA. To send mail, a system must have a client
MTA, and to receive mail, a system must have a server MTA.
• 2. Sending Emails: Mail is sent by a series of request and response messages between the
client and the server. The message which is sent across consists of a header and a body.
The message body contains the actual information read by the receipt.
• 3. Receiving Emails: The user agent on the server-side checks the mailboxes at a
particular time of intervals. If any information is received, it informs the user about the
mail with a short description o By selecting any of the mail users can view its contents
on the terminal.
COMMANDS

• HELO : Used by client to identify itself.


HELP :xyz.com
• MAIL FROM : Identify sender
MAIL FROM : [email protected]
• RCPT TO : Identify intended receipiet.
RCPT TO : [email protected]
• DADA : To send Actual message or data.
DATA : This is to remind
• QUIT : To terminate the message.
QUIT
• RESET : It is use to reset the connection.
RESET
Advantages

Advantages of SMTPIf

• necessary, the users can have a dedicated server.


• It allows for bulk mailing.
• Low cost and wide coverage area.
• Offer choices for email tracking.
• Reliable and prompt email delivery.
Disadvantage

Disadvantages of SMTP
• SMTP’s common port can be blocked by several firewalls.
• SMTP security is a bigger problem.
• Its simplicity restricts how useful it can be.
• Just 7-bit ASCII characters can be used.
• If a message is longer than a certain length, SMTP servers may reject
the entire message.
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