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Email: SMTP and IMAP
Follow a message from sender to inbox, and see which protocol pushes mail and which fetches it. About 12 minutes.
A mail server needs to deliver a message to someone@receiver.example. How does it find the server to connect to?
- AIt looks up the MX record for receiver.example in DNS
- BIt connects to www.receiver.example
- CIt asks the recipient's IMAP server for its address
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It looks up the MX record for receiver.example in DNS. MX records list the mail servers for a domain by priority.
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