e-mail routing

E-mail routing describes the transmission technique and routing of e-mails between sender and recipient. This technique is described in RFC 1711 and is based on the e-mail address.

For routing through the MHS system, there are the various routing algorithms and methods such as static routing and dynamic routing, store-and-forward method, source routing and others.

Mail communication over the Internet

In general, mail routing occurs between two users, from which the mail sender is a mail client or mail user agent( MUA) that sends an email to the sending mail transfer agent( MTA). From there, the e-mail goes on to the receiving Mail Transfer Agent and on to the receiving Mail User Agent, which displays the e-mail on the screen as a mail client.