What does POP stand for?

how and why do you use POP

Post Office Protocol

post office protocol

Post Office Protocol.

You use it via something like Outlook express. ( or telnet )

Its used to recieve e-mail from a server.

IE: someone sends a mail to you. It gets sent to a mailserver via SMTP that then gets put into a pop account. then you connect to the server via POP to recieve the mail from where it was stored on the server and then put on your computer.

POP stands for Post Office Protocol.

POP3 is the current standard
It runs on port 110 and is used to receive mail.

You would need to enter in your POP3 server address in an email client to receive mail.

An example is something like Mail.yahoo.com



SMTP is for sending mail and it stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

It is used to send mail and would need to enter in this to send mail properly in an email client.

POP Stands for 'Post Office Protocol.'

Its used to retrieve email off a server and download it to your computer.

If you have an email account that supports POP3, you can set up a mail program such as Outlook or Thunderbird to download your messages from the server using POP rather than using Webmail to check your mail.

(Gmail for one, allows this, as well as pretty much any ISP assigned email address)

You'll have to look at the account providers help to find out what POP and SMTP servers to use in your client. And they should have instructions on setting up your client as well.

If you are talking about email, it stands for Post Office Protocol. POP, specifically POP3 email retrieves email from a specific server or other networked email program, for example yahoo mail. Although most you have to pay for some are free. Unfortunately yahoo you must pay to use this service.

POP statnds for "Post Office Protocol".

In computing, local e-mail clients use the Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3), an application-layer Internet standard protocol, to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection. Many subscribers to individual Internet service provider e-mail accounts access their e-mail with client software that uses POP3

Why don't you read more on the same in the below mentioned wikipedia link.

Post Office Protocol version allowing the users to retrieve e-mail when connected and then to view and manipulate the retrieved messages without needing to stay connected. Although most clients have an option to leave mail on server, e-mail clients using POP3 generally connect, retrieve all messages, store them on the user's PC as new messages, delete them from the server, and then disconnect.