How does email travel?

Answer 1

When an email is sent, it is usually converted into a stream of data. The data in question is usually stored in what is called the packets. The packets usually includes the routing instructions to the address that a given email is to be delivered.

Answer 2

A computer sends an email by relying on networking. The email goes to the server. Then goes to the internet (remember it is not the internet. The internet is just like LAN while Internet is the whole world over). The email is then transmitted to your destinations server to their computer.

Answer 3

Email when sent is converted into a "stream" of data. This data is stored in what are called "packets". These packets include routing instructions as to where the email is supposed to go. The packets are sent to the closest ISP relay, which reads this address info and passes it along. Your email jumps from server to server, until it lands in the final destination of where you sent it to.

Answer 4

Your email client application sends message to your email server (i.e. gmail.com or Yahoo.com etc.). Server looks at recipient address and sends message to proper destination server. When your friends's email client application connects to a server it checks for new messages and gets them to its inbox folder on his computer.

Answer 5

E-mails travel from compter to computer through waves.

Answer 6

Email travels over the internet through small packets called data. Data is sent from one place to another through an Internet line. Everything that one sees on the internet is data.

Answer 7

when you send the email, it passes from computer to computer until it gets to the one that carries the domain address.

Answer 8

Gateways-which allows information such as e-mails to go from one computer yo another.

Answer 9

phone lines