POP3

Explain What is POP3. How does is differ from POP?

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kumar.sikar

  • May 5th, 2009
 

POP stands for Post Office Protocol. This is used to describe how e-mail clients interact with mail servers. The POP3 Server is a type of mail server used for incoming mail. In simple terms, POP servers provide a mail-drop service (a temporary mailbox to leave messages so they can be picked up at the recipient's convenience.) When users connect to their ISP POP servers, their e-mail software interface with the server and download any messages for them. POP is only used to receive messages, it is not used to send them.

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ashishrs

  • Jun 8th, 2009
 

Post Office Protocol or POP is the protocol which describes the rules to fetch email messages from a server to local email client like outlook. POP3 is the third version and is standard now. There are two protocols used for sending and receiving emails from email clients- SMTP for sending mails and POP3 (or IMAP) for receiving emails.

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