With many types of business email accounts, your computer connects to a machine called the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol server when you send messages. If you have difficulty sending messages, there ...

One of the little-known freebies Gmail offers is a portable SMTP server to send mail from any network for any email address. In your email client software, under Outgoing mail, set the SMTP server to ...

Desktop clients send email over Gmail using the simple mail transfer protocol. You can use the telnet program on your computer to connect to Gmail's SMTP server and verify the connection is working ...

Sorry if this is kind of a double post, but I"m getting nothing but blank stares in the NT forum, and this may be a little less platform-specific.<BR><BR>I've got exchange servers on this end, the ...

When it works correctly, email can feel seamless. But a failure reveals its two separate components: one kind of server handles your mail app retrieving messages; another sends them out. These ...