What is a Mail Server?

 

Mei Ling Lee

A Mail Server is a group of powerful computers dedicated to managing the transmission of message (electronic mail) electronically over computer networks. As electronic mail systems are based on client-server architecture, software application like Eudora Pro running on your PC is an electronic mail client. With it, users on the network can easily send, receive and organize their electronic messages through the user-friendly interface. Electronic mail is sent from Eudora Pro to a central Mail Server which then forwards the mail to its intended destination, or vice versa. In other words, both client and server programs must communicate with each other on the same protocol (language). Also, the client program relies very much on the server to process and manipulate each request.

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