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When you click or tap the "Send" button inside a web browser or e-mail client the program/browser/application connects to a mail server on the internet.

A mail server (AKA: E-mail Server) is a server that receives emails from a clients computer and delivers them over the internet, or a network, to other mail servers or a clients computer.

The server will most likely be a SMTP or POP3server.

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