Thursday, November 13, 2014

Communicating on the Internet

Emails are helpful for getting messages or information across from person to person. Email uses a Client which can be Hardware or software based. The program, communicates to the servers and is able to send the data across. You either send plain text using an email or send a file through the servers.

The SMTP is also known as Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, this will regulate outgoing emails. It finds the domain address its trying to be sent to and makes sure the IP address and other address information matches, then it will paste the email onto the servers.POP3 downloads the emails onto your computer to be read while IMAP can be used from any device.

IMing is a type of client that lets you instantly message someone over a server. The server will find the other person's IP and send the message to them. After this, the server is no longer needed because it already has all of the information it needs to keep the messages. There are also many online services to IM and email people making this process easier.

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