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Which protocol is responsible for sending e-mail?

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Question added by Nabil Rageh , Technical Support Manager , DenTech for communication and Information Technology
Date Posted: 2017/02/18
Mohammed Ibrahim Gali
by Mohammed Ibrahim Gali , Assistant Professor , Kamlin College

Email Protocols: IMAP, POP3, SMTP and HTTP

Joe Seychell
by Joe Seychell , head of IT , Pinnacle Investment

The Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is a mail protocol used for accessing email on a remote web server from a local client. IMAP and POP3 are the two most commonly used Internet mail protocols for retrieving emails. Both protocols are supported by all modern email clients and web servers.

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by Deleted user

POP3, IMAP are used by e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail messages from a mail server over a TCP/IP connection

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