SMTP Server

In case you have a cloud website hosting plan and you create an email address, you might take the option to send out and receive emails for granted, but in fact, this is not always the case. Sending emails is not necessarily part of the hosting plans that service providers have and an SMTP service is necessary to be able to do that. The acronym signifies Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and this is the piece of software that enables you to send out e-mails. If you work with an e-mail application, it creates a connection to the SMTP server. The latter then looks up the DNS records of the domain name, that is a part of the receiving address to find out which mail server deals with its email messages. After system data is swapped, your SMTP server delivers the message to the remote IMAP or POP server and then the email is finally delivered in the matching mailbox. An SMTP server is needed if you are using some kind of contact form too, so if you work with a free of charge hosting package, as an example, it is very likely that you will not have the ability to make use of this type of form since many free of charge website hosting service providers do not allow outgoing e-mail messages.