What does HTML & SMTP mean and do I need them????

[Elly Hill]

Hello everyone (again!!),
Can someone please tell me what SMTP and HTML mean and do I need them ?
When I receive emails now there is a box with HTML ... at the start of the
message and also in my address book my contacts have the letters SMTP after
the name and before the email address...lots of unsimplified problems since
this so called expert upgraded me (and my computer)!! Elly

[Helen Castle]

HTML = Hypertext markup language = the language you write webpages in - now
often used to send fancy, smancy emails. See line below starting with your
name - that is HTML

SMTP = Standard (?) Mail Transfer Protocol - how emails get around the
internet

sort of like a fan belt on a car you dont need to know about it until your
alternator doesn't work. Just know it is there - that's about all I know
after 13 years - I can speak schoolgirl HTML but Frontpage and other
programs translate it for me so I dont worry too much.

Helen Castle

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[Mark Lang]

Helen Castle wrote:

>SMTP = Standard (?) Mail Transfer Protocol - how emails get around the
>internet
>
>

Actually, it's Simple Mail Transfer Protocol a protocol for sending
e-mail messages between servers. Most e-mail systems that send mail over
the Internet use SMTP to send messages from one server to another; the
messages can then be retrieved with an e-mail client using either POP or
IMAP. In addition, SMTP is generally used to send messages from a mail
client to a mail server. This is why you need to specify both the POP or
IMAP server and the SMTP server when you configure your e-mail application.

Basically, you just need to know that it works.

Mark

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[Charani]

If you are using Outlook Express for collecting and sending emails,
then yes you do need SMTP

HTML is the code that web pages are written in and which is totally
beyond my comprehension so I use Mozilla's Composer to make any web
pages I need cos it does the hard part.

If you're using OE for collecting mail, then make sure that they are
rendered in plain text as HTML mails are a favourite way of passing
viruses.