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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 , Academic Staff Member , Dor Al-Uloom Educational Co.

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.

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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