Sending E-Mail Using E-Mail Servers

Sending E-Mail Using E-Mail Servers

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Although not exactly like the postal service, the same general ideas apply. Each company has one (or more) e-mail servers, acting as local post offices. Also, Internet service providers (ISPs) have one (or more) e-mail servers. If you use e-mail from your corporation's enterprise network, you typically use your company's e-mail servers to drop off and pick up e-mail. If you connect to an ISP from home, you would use that ISP's e-mail servers to drop off and pick up e-mail.