SMTP

👥kind protocolusage messagingenc optionaltopology federatedentity federated
started
1982
by
Jon Postel
homepage
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5321
wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol

Server-to-server mail transport protocol. The federation layer of email: STARTTLS for transport encryption (now near-universal), MX records for routing, SPF/DKIM/DMARC bolted on for spam and forgery resistance.

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