About Mail Servers

SMTP is an acronym for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. It lives up to its name the steps to transfer a basic message is very simple. You can see for yourself for reading our article on Manually Testing your SMTP server.

To the typical end-user the mail server is an ambiguous thing. The user only knows that for them to receive e-mail they must type a server name or IP address that has been given to them from their ISP. If you are an end-user, you can stop here because that is all you need to know.

E-mail Administrators

For the more curious and the administrators out there, managing a mail server is quite the headache. We have to keep our servers off the blacklists, secured so they are never considered as an open relay, and equipped with spam filtering and phishing messages.

Mail Servers are a business critical asset these days and are expected to run continuously just as everyone expects water and electricity.

Here we will be looking forward to what is upcoming and also referring to best practices that keep our servers available.

Article last reviewed: 10/10/2006

Created by: Digital Foundation, inc.

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