What is an email server?

What is the role of an email server

What is an email server?
It's like a postoffice. It holds the mail until it's delivered to you, or it accepts mail from you and ships it off to the recipient's server.





Generally, mail is sent to an SMTP server. It decides who gets the mail and initiates the delivery. Eventually it gets to the "last server" which is a POP server. The pop server waits until the recipient connects and it delivers the mail to her desktop.
Reply:An email server is a dedicated server or partition of a server soaly for the purpose of emailk. Sutch as hotmail yahoo gmail are all on email servers and for like juno when you send the email it goes to an email server till the reciever downloads it.