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一个简单的电子邮件服务器 Given that you have an e-mail client on your machine, you are ready to send and receive e-mail.既然你有你的机器上的电子邮件客户端，您就可以发送和接收电子邮件。 All that you need is an e-mail server for the client to connect to.所有你需要的是一个客户端连接到电子邮件服务器。 Lets imagine what the simplest possible e-mail server would look like in order to get a basic understanding of the process.让我们想象一下最简单的电子邮件服务器看起来像什么，为了得到一个基本的了解的过程。 Then we will look at the real thing.然后我们将看看真实的东西。 If youve read How Web Servers Work , then you know that machines on the Internet can run software applications that act as servers .如果您读过Web服务器工作原理 ，那么你知道，在互联网上的机器可以运行应用软件， 如服务器行为。 There are Web servers, FTP servers, telnet servers and e-mail servers running on millions of machines on the Internet right now.有Web服务器，FTP服务器，Telnet服务器和电子邮件服务器现在运行在互联网上的机器上百万。 These applications run all the time on the server machine and they listen to specific ports , waiting for people or programs to attach to the port.这些应用程序在服务器计算机上运行所有的时间和他们收听到特定端口 ，等待人或程序附加到端口。 The simplest possible e-mail server would work something like this:最简单的e - mail服务器的工作是这样的： It would have a list of e-mail accounts, with one account for each person who can receive e-mail on the server.这将有一个电子邮件帐户，一个每个人都可以接收电子邮件在服务器上的帐户。 My account name might be mbrain , John Smiths might be jsmith , and so on.我的帐户名可能mbrain，约翰史密斯的可能jsmith的 ，依此类推。 It would have a text file for each account in the list.它会在列表中为每个帐户的文本文件。 So, the server would have a text file in its directory named MBRAIN.TXT, another named JSMITH.TXT, and so on.因此，服务器会在MBRAIN.TXT，另一名为JSMITH.TXT其目录中的一个文本文件，等等。 If someone wanted to send me a message, the person would compose a text message (Marshall, Can we have lunch Monday? John) in an e-mail client, and indicate that the message should go to mbrain.如果有人想给我发送消息，该人将组成一个电子邮件客户端的文本消息（“马歇尔，才能有午餐周一约翰？”），并注明消息应该去mbrain。 When the person presses the Send button, the e-mail client would connect to the e-mail server and pass to the server the name of the recipient (mbrain), the n