SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is used to send email from applications like Microsoft Outlook, Windows Live Mail etc. The SMTP server name is like 'mail.myserver.com'. To setup and configure the email, sometimes SMTP server ip address is needed. If you know the SMTP server name then you can easily retrieve the server IP address.
1. Click on the "Start" menu, type run and then type cmd in the search box and press enter.
2. A command prompt will open.
3. As you know the SMTP server name, type the below command and press the enter button.
ping mail.myserver.com
You will receive following type of output:
Pinging mail.myserver.com [10.11.12.13] with 32 bytes of data:
In this example, the SMTP server IP address is 10.11.12.13
