The Quick Mail Transfer Protocol (QMTP) is an e-mail transmission

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that is designed to have better performance than Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), the ''

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'' standard. It was designed and implemented by

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. QMTP uses fewer round trips, or transmissions compared to SMTP. The protocol was proposed in 1997.

External links

QMTP Protocol definition
Internet mail protocols Computer-related introductions in 1997 {{compu-network-stub