How Email Works
You might already have a strong working knowledge of how email works. If you don’t, this section provides a common base of knowledge, which allows you to get the most from this chapter.
Different types of devices and methods generate emails. Most commonly, a user composes a message on his or her computer and then sends it to his or her mail server (though more and more commonly, the computer is a tablet or smartphone). At this point, the user’s computer is finished with the job, but the mail server still has to deliver the message. A mail server is like an electronic post office: It sends and receives electronic mail. Most of the time, the mail server is separate from the computer where the mail was composed.
The sender’s mail ...
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