id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2238 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol - Wikipedia .html text/html 7463 817 65 User-level email clients typically use SMTP only for sending messages to a mail server for relaying, and typically submit outgoing email to the mail server on port 587 or 465 per RFC 8314. RFC 788 was published in November 1981, was one of the first mail transfer agents to implement SMTP.[11] Over time, as BSD Unix became the most popular operating system on the Internet, Sendmail became the most common MTA (mail transfer agent).[12] RFC 1869 defined Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (ESMTP), which established a general structure for all existing and future extensions which aimed to add-in the features missing from the original SMTP. Mail is retrieved by end-user applications, called email clients, using Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), a protocol that both facilitates access to mail and manages stored mail, or the Post Office Protocol (POP) which typically uses the traditional mbox mail file format or a proprietary system such as Microsoft Exchange/Outlook or Lotus Notes/Domino. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2238.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2238.txt