Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Email Protocols
- This is a seperate system of protocols that have been devised to be used purely by email
- SMTP
- This stands for simple mail transfer protocol
- This is the standard way to send messages
across networks into your email server
- They then get sent to the recipitants email server
- Advantages
- Used by nearly every computer
- Simple protocol
- Universally recognised
- Disadvantages
- Very little security
- Lacks certain functions
- Simplicity limits usefulness
- POP3
- Stands for post office protocol 3
- The method of recieving emails, where you
download emails from the server to your
computer
- These emails then get deleted from the server,
meaning they can be seen without an internet
connection but only on that device
- Advantages
- It is a lot more secure than other recieving protocols
- Don't have to be connected to the
internet to read emails once they have
been dowloaded
- Takes up minimal storage space in your email server
- Diadvantages
- Only a single device to recieve from,
- Emails can become corrupted or lost
- Takes up storage space on your hard drive
- IMAP
- Stands for internet message access protocol
- Another way of recieving emails, where the user
accesses them whilst they are on their email server
- They are then stored on the server
- Advantages
- Can be accessed on a range of different devices
- Multiple addresses to recieve emails on
- Email can be repeatedly accessed from the server
- Disadvantages
- Requires constant internet access
- Takes up a lot of server space