What's an smtp server?

Question

An antivirus program called avira allows me to send new virus definitions to their main site through email, but they require me to specify a SMTP server. What in the world do I write in there?

I have a yahoo mail account. What do I write for its smtp server? Where do I find this information?

Answer 1

SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. it's the outgoing mail server

Answer 2

SMTP is Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
You usually get an adress for sending email from your ISP or if you have a web site hosted somewhere.
I think there may be some free ones to use..not sure on that though.
Check with your Internet service provider, or do a search for Free SMTP server

Answer 3

A SMTP server, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, is a basic email server. You need to know your server name to setup email clients, like outlook express, to beable to receive email. Contact your ISP or look on there web site to find out the name of your SMTP server...

Answer 4

SMTP Server - is a simplest, easy to use SMTP mail relay server. It is used for relaying your email messages to its destinations quickly and easily. Nowadays, many Internet providers are closing their SMTP servers and filtering all the incoming SMTP traffic to fight Spam. They let everybody in from their local network. And filter everybody out who is not. This means that as long as you are using their services, your email client is working fine, but what happens when you go on a business trip or vacation and you want to send an email from an airport or hotel room? In most cases your SMTP server is not accessible to you anymore since you are trying to get to it from outside of your ISP's network. If you use our 1st SMTP Server, you will not have that problem since it is going to deliver your email directly to it's destination bypassing your ISP's SMTP server

Answer 5

you need to designate which server uses the smtp protocol, that is the simple mail transfer protocol.