Email SMTP Education and Training

Learn how to follow email SMTP protocol
By Andrea Buginsky, Freelance Writer Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, or SMTP, is the network used to send email over the Internet. SMTP is the email's first stop when you send it out. As a business owner, you need to know about SMTP email services when setting up email software on business computers.
 

There are many different aspects of Simple Mail Transfer Protocol you'll need to know when working with email SMTP providers. Therefore, you'll want some basic Email SMTP education and training to get started. Consider these options:

1. Find out how to configure your email to support SMTP and POP email (Post Office Protocol).

2. Find out who the email SMTP providers are.

3. Find out where to find SMTP email solutions.

Learn how to configure email to support SMTP and POP email

If you change or update the email server you use, you need to reconfigure the email settings on your computer to support SMTP and POP email. Depending on the type of Internet connection you use, you may need to know the name of your email server, or you might need to contact your Internet Service Provider (ISP) for the server name.
Try: On-line.com shows you how to configure different email programs for SMTP and POP email. The University of Washington website tells you when you need to know the name of your Internet provider, and when you'll need to contact your ISP for the server name.

Learn about different email SMTP providers

There are many different email SMTP providers, and you'll want to find out who they are so you can pick the one you want to use. You can find out which email providers use SMTP by looking them up on the Internet. Rather than looking up each individual provider to see if they support SMTP, you can look for a list of providers on the Internet.
Try: Use the Free Email Providers Guide and educate yourself about providers that support SMTP and POP email. CWDCommunity.com provides a list of outgoing email servers that use SMTP that you can refer to for educational information.

Learn how to find SMTP email solutions

Once you use a SMTP email provider, you'll want to know how to fix problems that can come up. Like any Internet or email provider, SMTP can experience problems that you'll need to troubleshoot, identify and fix.
Try: The San Francisco State University website provides a help desk for configuring your computer's server on specific Internet providers. Livinginternet.com provides a list of commands that can exchange between two email servers during a SMTP session, and it provides sources for starting your own email server.

• You may also want to learn where to find SMTP email hosting information if you plan to start your own email server.