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What Is the Difference Between SMTP and IMAP? What Is the Process?

SMTP & IMAP are the two main protocols that allow you to send and receive emails. What is SMTP? How does it work? Simple Message Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is what your email client (e.g. Gmail, Thunderbird, Outlook, etc.) uses to send your email messages to your email server. The email server is often hosted by […]

April 19, 2021By Rakshit Patel

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