what happens when you sent and e-mail?

Question

what happens when you sent and e-mail?

Answer 1

Understanding Emails check out

http://www.aysoft.com/tips/email.htm

Answer 2

From the moment you click the send button until the message arrives in the recipient's inbox, lots of things happen. The exact details depend on the setup of the mail systems on your end and for the recipient. There are a number error conditions and problems that can slow things down.



For simplicity we'll say that you're sending a message from xyz.com to domain xyza.com. There are no errors or problems and there are no hosts that sort mail for xyza.com. I'm also going to leave out a lot of detail on exactly how the systems know where each other are and how the transfer happens.



1. You click Send.

2. Your mail client wraps up the text in MIME adds in the appropriate headers and adds any attachments.

3. Your mail client contacts the mail server for xyz.com and transfers the message.

4. The mail server for xyz accepts the message and adds it to its internal queue.

5. The mail server for xyz contacts the server for xyza.com and transfers the message.

6. The mail server for xyza accepts the message and adds it to its internal queue.

7. When it comes to deliver the message the mail server sees that it is for local delivery and puts it into the inbox for the recipient.

8. The recipient contacts the mail server and requests new messages from their inbox. Your message is then delivered.



I have left out a lot of detail, but that's basically what happens.

Answer 3

E-mail



Short for electronic mail, e-mail is text messages and/or files, images or other types of attachments sent through a network to a specified individual or group of individuals. Below is an example and breakdown of an Internet e-mail address.

[e-mail]

The first portion all e-mail addresses is the alias, user, group, and/or department of a company. In our above example "Support" is the department at Computer Hope.



Next, the "@" is used as a divider in the e-mail address and is always required for all SMTP e-mail addresses.



Finally, "computerhope.com" is the domain name of where the user belongs. Many times a user that owns their own domain name will also own their own web page and curious users can type the domain name in their browser to look at that user's web page.



Users can send and receive e-mail messages either through an e-mail program such as Microsoft Outlook or through an online e-mail service or webmail such as Hotmail or Gmail.



Are e-mail addresses case sensitive?



Typically most Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and e-mail servers are not case sensitive, which means for example [e-mail] is the same as [e-mail]. However, the first portion of the e-mail address (alias/username/group) can be case sensitive. This means if the server has case sensitive logins SUPPORT, Support, support, and SUPport would all be considered different users and each of those users would have different e-mail addresses.

Answer 4

the receiver will get your email.