Duran asks: I have been trying to sync Gmail with the custom made email client that my employer provides me but it has been constantly bugging me for Gmail SMTP Server name and Port. I want to know what does this SMTP do and what are the required settings?
SMTP or “Simple Mail Transfer Protocol” is the standard method or the protocol that is used by the Mail Transfer Agent to deliver your email message to the recipient’s mail server.
Before I explain the details about SMTP, I will answer the second part of your question . Here are the Gmail SMTP Server Name and Port Details.
Gmail SMTP Server Name: ‘smtp.gmail.com’
Gmail SMTP Port for SSL: ‘465’
Gmail SMTP Port for TLS/STARTTLS: ‘587’
Uses Authentication: Yes
Now let us comeback to first part of your query and try to understand the basics of SMTP and where it works.
Mail Delivery Process
When you send an email from email client like Microsoft Outlook Express or ThunderBird, it forwards the email to the Mail Server. This Mail Server then sends the message across the internet to the recipients Mail Server which then can be accessed through the recipient’s email client.
See this diagram for details.
Where is SMTP used?
During the mail delivery process SMTP is used at two points.
1: Firstly SMTP is used to send the Email message from your email client to Senders Mail Server.
2. Secondly it is exclusively used across the internet to deliver the message from Senders Mail Server to the Recipients Mail Server.
Note: Due to security implications, most of the SMTP servers these days use secure SSL connections by default.
Hope the articles answers your question.
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