What happens when you press “Send”?
Pressing Send starts a precise chain of events.
Your email client passes the message to your provider's submission server, which checks your identity and wraps the content into an SMTP envelope.
The server looks up the recipient's MX record via DNS to find where to deliver it.
Once the connection is established, the data is transmitted, queued, and eventually retrieved by the recipient's client.
It's not instant but it is methodical, designed for reliability and accountability.
And remember, pressing send, and having the recipient's client retrieve the email, doesn't mean it will land in the inbox.
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