SMTP

American  

abbreviation

Computers.

1. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol: a set of standards used for transferring email messages from the sender to the recipient over the internet.

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SMTP British  

abbreviation

1. simple mail transfer protocol: a protocol that enables e-mails to be sent between different servers

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SMTP Scientific  

/ ĕs′ĕm-tē-pē′ /

1. Short for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. A protocol used on TCP/IP networks governing the transfer of e-mail.

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Etymology

Origin of SMTP

First recorded in 2000–05

Example Sentences

Something that we are investing in now — and a lot of entrepreneurs are working on — are protocols similar to SMTP.

From The Verge

They are protocols that let you build services in the same way as SMTP.

From The Verge

Imagine a world where you could have a protocol that is similar to SMTP, but for Discord or Twitter.

From The Verge

You did not directly go and interact with SMTP.

From The Verge

The software industry did the first by creating and popularizing a protocol known as SMTP—simple mail transfer protocol—which enabled the exchange of e-mail messages between heterogeneous computer systems.

From Literature