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Email clients vs Webmail - which use which protocols?

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Here is my understanding: Webmail (gmail, etc) uses http for sending/retrieving emails. Email clients (thunderbird, etc) use SMTP for sending emails, and POP3/IMAP to retrieve emails. (Or, do they use http to send emails too, and only SMTP servers actually use SMTP..?) Is this correct? Edit: I gues…

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All e-mail is sent using SMTP. This is covered in the following RFC 821. POP3 is a retrieval protocol only and covered in RFC 1939. IMAP is the same and covered in RFC 3501 All web-based mail providers simply provides an interface to the mailboxes b…

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