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SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is the de facto standard for outgoing e-mail transmissions across the Internet. SMTP is a "push" protocol that does not allow one to "pull" messages from a remote server on demand. To do this a mail client must use POP3 or IMAP.