How eGo Works

First, let's see how the email system works.

When you obtain an email account, you get several "parameters" from the service provider (SP). You use these "parameters" to configure your email application (Outlook (Express), for example), so that it can send and receive messages using the account. These "parameters" include User Name, SMTP server address, POP3 server address, etc.

When you send an email to someone (say john@smith.net), the email application delivers the message to the SMTP server. The SMTP server puts your message in a outgoing-mail queue. The queue may be short and may be long. This depends on how many clients the SMTP server has and how fast it processes outgoing mails. When your turn in the queue comes up, the SMTP server trys to connect smith.net's SMTP server and deliver the mssage to it. If your message is accepted by smith.net's SMTP server, you message is removed from the queue, otherwise, either it will wait in the queue for the next turn, or you receive a message tells you "Delivery Failiure".

When eGo is installed, and your email application is configured to use eGo as the SMTP server, the message is sent to the recipient's SMTP server directly.

The advantages of using eGo as SMTP server: 1) Fast, because your emails don't have to wait in a queue; 2) You know whether or not your message is sent successfully, because eGo is a synchronous server.