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Question by funmi
Submitted on 7/28/2003
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How does an Http webmail works, I know about SMTP,Imap and POP3 but Internet email such as yahoo and hotmail. how does it realy works from sender to reciever and what protocol it uses.

Answer by mvbhaskar76@yahoo.com
Submitted on 9/10/2005
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I think HTTP is outer layer, but it actually uses SMTP for sending mail and IMAP for retrieving and displaying mail. HTTP just provides a user interface and web access. So the protocol is http over smtp for sending (sender to receiver); http over IMAP for retrieval (server to receiver).

Answer by Sufiyan
Submitted on 9/11/2006
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