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you are correct, if you are interested in how many servers a email travels through before you receive it, check out the message headers some time.<br />
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you are correct, if you are interested in how many servers a email travels through before you receive it, check out the message headers some time.

http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_view_full_mail_headers_in_outlook.html [http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_view_full_mail_headers_in_outlook.html]

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This may be a dumb question.<br />
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Let's say a device is configured with an SMTP server so that it can relay emails.<br />
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Is the device sending emails to the specified SMTP server and then the SMTP server sends it to the intended recipients mali server? <br />
That would mean device sends to smtp server on port 25, smtp server sends to the recipients mail server on port 25. Recipients mail server sends it to the mailboxes on port 25?<br />
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This may be a dumb question.

Let's say a device is configured with an SMTP server so that it can relay emails.

Is the device sending emails to the specified SMTP server and then the SMTP server sends it to the intended recipients mali server? 
That would mean device sends to smtp server on port 25, smtp server sends to the recipients mail server on port 25. Recipients mail server sends it to the mailboxes on port 25?

 

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