I’m trying to understand the process for mail flow for a project I’m doing. I understand that you register your domain with a vendor and they have something call MX records, but then it gets kind of fuzzy.
As the follow-up question, how does it work when two companies merge and I email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) and he responds back from [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])? What process would these two companies have gone through to make this happen?
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For additional information read up on SMTP (that server he mentions) which is used for incomjng mail. Its quite simple and you can even send mail with just a telnet client. Once it’s stored/forwarded/filtered, it is then usually stored in mbox or other format on the mail server.
When you check your email, it uses a IMAP or POP3 service running on the mail server. This let’s you log in and retrieve your mail.
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