How E-mail Works?

 

 

 

Electronic mail, also known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients.

When sending an email, a series of servers passes the message along until it finally is read by the recipient.



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Modern e-mail systems are based on a store-and-forward model in which e-mail computer server systems, accept, forward, or store messages on behalf of users, who only connect to the e-mail infrastructure with their personal computer or other network-enabled device for the duration of message transmission or retrieval to or from their designated server.

Forwarders are virtual email accounts that don't store incoming messages, but forward them to another email address.

A catch-all account receives all incoming email to any address at the domain name and forwards them
to another email address.