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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
Peter Martin

Joomla specialist and Linux admin for fast, secure and scalable websites.