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SMTP And The Internet Protocol

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SMTP protocol is an internet protocol used for transmitting electronic mail on business networks and the internet, it is short for Simple mail transfer protocol. The SMTP protocol was created in the early 1980 and it remains one of the most important and popular internet protocols that we use worldwide nowadays. There are other protocols that are being used nowadays for the email softwares, some examples of these protocols are POP3 which is short for Post Office Protocol 3 or another internet protocol like IMAP short for internet Message Access Protocol. Despite all the years that have passed there in no alternative to the SMTP protocol to use in the mainstream. SMTP is a connection oriented, text-based protocol in which an mail …show more content…

Some of these commands are : 1) HELO an EHLO: these are commands that initiate a new protocol session between client and servers. The EHLO command requests the response with any optional SMTP extensions it supports. 2) The MAIL command: Responsible for initiating the sending process of an email message. 3) The RCPT command : responsible to provide one email address for a recipient of the current message being prepared 4) DATA command: is the command responsible for indicating the start of transmission of the email message. This command initiates a series of one or more follow-on messages each containing a piece of the message. The last message in the sequence is empty (containing only a period (.) as a termination character) to signify the end of the email. 5) RSET command : it’s use is while in the process of sending an email (after issuing the MAIL command), either end of the SMTP connection can reset the connection if it encounters an error. 6) The NOOP command is an empty ("no operation") message designed as a kind of ping to check for responsiveness of the other end of the session 7) Last one is the QUIT command : it is responsible for terminating the protocol session So now I’m gonna talk about the issues with the SMTP protocol, SMTP lacks built-in security features. Internet spammers have been enabled to exploit SNMP in the past by generating huge amounts of junk email and having

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