Yes, hotmail and Yahoo use SMTP as protocol to deliver e-mail accross the
Internet. However, they use http as transport protocol between (Web) client
and (Web) server. They don't expose their POP3 and SMTP services directly to
the public, but use a webserver as gateway to the SMTP backbone.
A little diagram can tell a thousand words (if correctly formatted :-) )....
1)
Browser (sender) to:
someone@somedomain.com
|
| HTTP protocol
V
WebServer (Yahoo)
|
| SMTP protocol
V
SMTP Server (Yahoo)
|
|
V
Internet SMTP protocol
|
|
|
V
SMTP server (ISP) domain: somedomain
|
| POP3 protocol
V
POP3 Client
someone@somedomain.com
2)
Browser (receiver)
someoneelse@yahoo.com
^
|
| HTTP protocol
WebServer (Yahoo)
^
|
| SMTP protocol
SMTP Server (Yahoo) domain yahoo.com
^
|
|
Internet SMTP protocol
^
|
|
SMTP server (ISP)
^
| SMTP protocol
|
SMTP Client sendto:
someoneelse@yahoo.com
Willy.
"Bill O" <billo@_imt_net> wrote in message
news:OT$3Mo9nEHA.3628@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Willy, can you explain this further? In my little brain, a SMTP client
> should work just fine. I imagine that Yahoo has SMTP servers to accept and
> send email with a web front-end. This front-end client app may use POP or
> IMAP, but that shouldn't be important here. Isn't SMTP how email is
> transported (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)? If Yahoo! didn't support this
> protocol, wouldn't they ostracize themselves from the rest of the world?
>
>
>
> I am just curious.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> "Willy Denoyette [MVP]" <willy.denoyette@pandora.be> wrote in message
> news:OuLd7w8nEHA.868@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>>
>> "erdem kemer" <erdemkemer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:ew$pkT8nEHA.4032@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>>i cant send mail to yahoo mail or hotmail while i can send my other mail
>>>accounts (pop3)
>>> is it becouse yahoo and hotmail is web-based mail[/color]
>>
>> Yes, they are web-based, not smtp mail servers.
>>
>> Willy.
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