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hello everyone in this Article we're going to talk about SMTP SMTP stands for a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol now I previously did a video on pop and IMAP which those are the protocols that are used for retrieving email and now I'm doing a video on SMTP which is a protocol that is used for sending email SMTP is basically a set of commands that authenticates and directs the transfer of email now a good way to remember what SMTP does is by looking at the acronym SMTP and associating it with sending mail to people so as an example when you write an email using an email client such as Microsoft Outlook and then when you hit send the email travels from your computer to your email server using the SMTP protocol now this server is also known as the SMTP server and this is what's configured in your email client so for example if you're using Gmail the SMTP server address would be smtp.gmail.com and then your SMTP server will send the message to the recipients email server also ...