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SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and is used to transmit email messages over the Internet. Google provides a free SMTP server through Gmail that allows users to send emails from their Gmail account. To use Gmail's SMTP server, users need to configure their email client or website with Gmail's SMTP server address, require authentication, use a secure connection like TLS or SSL, and enter their Gmail username and password. The document also provides instructions for finding the SMTP server address for other domains using commands in Windows or Linux.

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What Is SMTP?: Plugin)

SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and is used to transmit email messages over the Internet. Google provides a free SMTP server through Gmail that allows users to send emails from their Gmail account. To use Gmail's SMTP server, users need to configure their email client or website with Gmail's SMTP server address, require authentication, use a secure connection like TLS or SSL, and enter their Gmail username and password. The document also provides instructions for finding the SMTP server address for other domains using commands in Windows or Linux.

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What is SMTP?

SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and it handles your outgoing mail.
This protocol allows applications to transmit email messages over the Internet. Your
email client connects to your mail server via SMTP and sends the messages.

To prevent spam from being sent via our mail servers, we require SMTP authentication.
This means that you have to enter your full email address as a username and your
email account password to use our email server to send messages.

Google SMTP server - how to send emails for


free?
Google’s Gmail SMTP server is a free SMTP service which anyone who has a Gmail
account can use to send emails. You can use it with personal emails, or even with your
website if you are sending emails for things such as contact forms, newsletter blasts, or
notifications.

To use Gmail’s SMTP server, the following settings are needed for your outgoing
emails:

 Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server: smtp.gmail.com

 Use Authentication: Yes

 Use Secure Connection: Yes (TLS or SSL depending on your mail client/website SMTP


plugin)

 Username: your Gmail account (e.g. [email protected])

 Password: your Gmail password

 Port: 465 (SSL required) or 587 (TLS required)


If you are using windows do the following:
1. Open up a command prompt (CMD.exe)
2. Type nslookup and hit enter
3. Type set type=MX and hit enter
4. Type the domain name and hit enter, for example: google.com
5. The results will be a list of host names that are set up for SMTP
If you are using Linux
1. Open a command prompt
2. Type dig domain.name MX and hit enter where domain.name is the domain you are
trying to find out the smtp server for.
If you do not get any answers back from your dns server, there is a good chance that there
isn't any SMTP Servers set up for that domain. If this is the case, do like other's have
suggested and call the hosting companies tech support.
generally smtp servers name are smtp.yourdomain.com or mail.yourdomain.com open
command prompt try to run following two commands
1. >ping smtp.yourdomain.com
2. >ping mail.yourdomain.com
you will most probably get response from any one from the above two commands.and that
will be your smtp server
If this doesn't work open your cpanel --> go to your mailing accounts -- > click on
configure mail account -- > there somewhere in the page you will get the information
about your smtp server
it will be written like this way may be :
Incoming Server: mail.yourdomain.com
IMAP Port: ---
POP3 Port: ---
Outgoing Server: mail.yourdomain.com
SMTP Port: ---

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