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How email works

10 November 2018

Everyone uses e-mail. Even websites do.

In this presentation, Peter explains how e-mail works and various frequently used terms: POP3, IMAP, SMTP, PHP mailer, Sendmail, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, X-Originating-IP, MIME, SPAM, IP reputation, Office365, Gmail. The Domain Name System (DNS) will also be discussed.

The purpose of this presentation is to give some background knowledge on how to configure mail & DNS and how to prevent problems with spam.

How email works

Presentation done at

JoomlaDay Deutschland 2018

10 November 2018
Nuremberg, Germany
Peter Martin
Joomla Linux Specialist

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