how email works - mmedrano9438/peripheral-brain GitHub Wiki

Emails are routed to user accounts via several computer servers. They route the message to their final destination and store them so that users can pick them up and send them once they connect to the email infrastructure.

1. Sender: The sender creates an email in which he records the information that needs to be transferred to the receiver.
2. Receiver: The receiver gets the information sent by the sender via email.
3. Email address: An email address is just like a house address where the communication arrives for the sender and receiver and they communicate with each other.
4. Mailer: The mailer program contains allows the ability to read, write, manage and delete the emails like Gmail, Outlook, etc.
5. Mail Server: The mail server is responsible for sending, receiving, managing, and recording all the data proceeded by their respective mail 6. programs and then processing them to their respective users.
6. SMTP: SMTP stands for Simple mail transfer protocol. SMTP basically uses the internet network connection to send and receive email messages over the Internet.