subject: Ensure Smooth Communication With Smtp Server [print this page] When a user sends an email either for business or domestic purpose, a lot happens behind the scenes. After clicking the send button, the message is handed off to a service running the simple mail transport protocol that is popularly known as SMTP. It is then that the SMTP server contacts the recipient mail server and sends the message to this mail server. This SMTP server is very crucial since if it stops responding, mail cannot be sent.
SMTP can handle bulk mail sending with ease. With this protocol you can be rest assured with your mail getting delivered. However, where there is technology, there are bound to be technician errors. There are in fact several reasons a mail server could lose its ability to send mail. Here are just a few:
The mail server might lose its connection to the internet.
The operating system to crash or hang if the mail server ran out of resources like disk space.
A mail administrator could make a configuration error.
A mail server could be added to a blacklist. This would prevent it from sending mail to any recipient server.
Since outgoing mail is a function that is critical not only for but for personal mail sending purpose as well, it is very import to have in place some method to monitor the service. There are some website monitoring services that provide support for monitoring SMTP. When you send an email, the system connects to your SMTP mail server passing the mail to other SMTP servers to the destination through several steps.
In an email, the sender therefore needs to mention the email address of the receiver while sending the email and it is then that the client machine connects to the SMTP servers of the sender's email service. In this process, the address of the sender, recipient and the content of the message is sent by the client
With the advancement of technology, communicating with people of different parts of the world has become very easy. It is possible to reach a person living in some other part of the world in seconds with the click of a mouse. The world of technology is surprising mankind everyday with its offerings. With the passage of time the SMTP server has emerged to be one of the most advanced mailing systems handling millions of requests.
