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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

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Strategic Medium Term Plan

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She Makes Transferable Protein

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Service Message Transmission Permission

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Simple Mail Transfer Protokol

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Small Mail Transfer Protocol

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Source Mail Telnet Provider

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Statewide Multimodal Transportation Plan

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Sub Manifest Transshipment Permit

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Simple Mail Transport Protocol

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Simple Message Transfer Protocol

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SMTP
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard communication protocol for electronic mail transmission. Mail servers and other message transfer agents use SMTP to send and receive mail messages. User-level email clients typically use SMTP only for sending messages to a mail server for relaying, and typically submit outgoing email to the mail server on port 587 or 465 per RFC 8314. For retrieving messages, IMAP (which replaced the older POP3) is standard, but proprietary servers also often implement proprietary protocols, e.g., Exchange ActiveSync. SMTP's origins began in 1980, building on concepts implemented on the ARPANET since 1971. It has been updated, modified and extended multiple times. The protocol version in common use today has extensible structure with various extensions for authentication, encryption, binary data transfer, and internationalized email addresses. SMTP servers commonly use the Transmission Control Protocol on port number 25 (for plaintext) and 587 (for encrypted communications).

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  • Sardar Usama
    Sardar Usama
    good and help ful thanks google badshah.
    LikeReply 29 years ago

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