| SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)SMTP is used to pass Email messages between Internet Servers. Each message has a standardized header that is used to identify Email address(es) of the person(s) the message is to be sent to, the Email address and name of the sender (to whom responses can be sent automatically), and details of those nodes on the network through which the message passed. A number of extensions to SMTP have been defined yielding ESMTP, which is mostly in use today. Type Associations- Topic(s) from which this Topic is derived:
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Mentioned in...ESMTP · IMAP · POP Bibliographic References- John Rhoton, X.400 and SMTP: Battle of the E-Mail Protocols, Digital Press, Oxford, UK, September 1997 [1]
- Jon B. Postel, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Internet RFC 821, August 1982 [1]
- Graham Klyne, Mark Nottingham, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Registration Procedures for Message Header Fields, Internet RFC 3864, September 2004 [0.9]
- Eric Burger, Emily Candell, Graham Klyne, Charles Eliot, Message Context for Internet Mail, Internet RFC 3458, January 2003 [0.9]
- Carl Malamud, A No Soliciting Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Service Extension, Internet RFC 3865, September 2004 [0.8]
- Lawrence E. Hughes, Internet E-Mail: Protocols, Standards, and Implementation, Artech House, Norwood, Massachusetts, September 1998 [0.8]
- John C. Klensin, Ned Freed, Marshall T. Rose, Einar A. Stefferud, David H. Crocker, SMTP Service Extensions, Internet RFC 1869, November 1995 [0.8]
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