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What is the difference between mail server and web server?
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November 07, 2009 6:31AM
A Web server is a program that, using the client/server model and the World Wide Web's Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ), serves the files that form Web pages to Web users (whose computers contain HTTP clients that forward their requests). Every computer on the Internet that contains a Web site must have a Web server program. Two leading Web servers are Apache , the most widely-installed Web server, and Microsoft's Internet Information Server ( IIS ). Other Web servers include Novell's Web Server for users of its NetWare operating system and IBM's family of Lotus Domino servers, primarily for IBM's OS/390 and AS/400 customers
A mail server (also known as a mail transfer agent or MTA, a
mail transport agent, a mail router or an Internet mailer) is an
application that receives incoming e-mail from local users (people
within the same domain) and remote senders and forwards outgoing
e-mail for delivery. A computer dedicated to running such
applications is also called a mail server. Microsoft Exchange,
qmail, Exim and sendmail are among the more common mail server
programs
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