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== Port Information ==
 
== Port Information ==

Latest revision as of 01:07, 21 October 2011

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

Overview

What is SMTP

SMTP is a plaintext protocol that is used for email delivery.

Port Information

 25/tcp
 26/tcp
 465/tcp
 587/tcp
 109/tcp (obsolete)


Applications that use SMTP

Some popular SMTP clients are:

  • Thunderbird
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Pine