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They will be saved on the servers of the receiving user's email provider. For example, say I send a message to example@gmail.com. The email is sent to the servers at gmail.com, where it will wait until my friend logs on to receive it. Even if my friend were logged on at the time I sent the email, it would always pass through this server before reaching him. This transmission of email from the sender to the recipient follows a process called "Store and Forward". A single email message passes through several, maybe dozens of servers before it reaches its destination. Each server stores the message until it the next server is ready to receive it, at which time the server forwards the message to the next server along the chain. The last server in the chain (the server you download your email from) stores the message until your email client application program is ready to receive it, at which time the server forwards the stored message to your computer.

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