You don’t need to understand how a Web browser works to use it, and you don’t need to understand how e-mail works to use an e-mail program to send and receive messages. But if you know in general the steps involved in getting a message from your computer to another computer on the Internet.
You’ll become a more informed business user, and you’ll have an idea of what’s going on when you see, for example, a message that says “POP server unavailable.” After you create an e-mail message and click the Send button, your message travels the following route to get to its intended recipient:
· Your e-mail program, such as Outlook Express, contacts your ISP’s computer and connects to an SMTP server program. SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The server program acknowledges that it has been contacted, and your e-mail program tells the server that it has a message it wants to send. The server program then says to send the message or to wait because it is busy.
· If it gets the green light, your e-mail program sends the message to the SMTP server and asks for confirmation.
· The server confirms that it has received the message and then asks the domain name server for the best path through the Internet to the intended recipient.
· The domain name server replies with the best path, and the SMTP server sends the message on its way.
Related posts:
- Understanding How E-Mail Works Part (2) · When the message arrives at the recipient’s SMTP server,...
- Setting Up Outlook Express Part (3) 6. Specify your server information. In the E-mail Server Names...
- Setting Up Outlook Express These days most ISPs provide you with an e-mail account...
- Setting Up Outlook Express Part (2) Setting Up an Existing Mail Account If you already have...
- Using Outlook Express Macintosh Edition Featuring: · Understanding How E-Mail Works · Setting Up Outlook...
