Email analysis
In this section, we will take a look at what POP and SMTP are used for, as well as investigating the communication in POP and SMTP and learning what some of the codes are; whether they're successful, or error codes, or something like that.
Now, we have three main protocols that we use for email on the internet:
- POP
- SMTP
- Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
These three are used by clients such as mobile devices or software running on a computer; some sort of standalone application such as Thunderbird or Outlook. There are other protocols as well if you're dealing with Outlook for exchange, for example, but primarily, if you're using a generic application and you're accessing your email server in a generic fashion, you'll be using one of these three protocols.
We'll be focusing on POP and SMTP.
POP and SMTP
POP is used for retrieving emails from a mail server. SMTP is used for sending emails to a mail server and sending emails between mail servers. If you'd like to learn more about...
