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Questions tagged [pop3]

POP3 stands for Post Office Protocol used by e-mail clients to retrieve messages from a remote e-mail server.

As well as being supported by local e-mail clients POP3 is also supported by most webmail services such as Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail.

POP3 is just one communications protocol on the web. Others include:

  • Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
  • User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
  • Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
  • Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
  • File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
  • Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)

POP3 on Wikipedia

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Linux Postfix Setup on a fresh VPS

I've launched a new VPS with CentOS 5. It's pretty skeletal, nothing setup. I'm trying to configure my mail server to handle my email: contact@domainname.com My DNS settings live on GoDaddy.com. I have set up a contact name under the MX settings…
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How can I configure multi domain IMAPS POPS and SMTPs with single SSL Certificate

If I have 3 domains hosted on single linux based mail server that are domain1.com, domain2.com and domain3.com.and I have *.domain1.com signed ssl certificate. Is there way I can use the same single ssl certificate for all domains for services…
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How to find old email accounts in imap?

I have a webmail with 90.000 imap accounts I'm trying to delete old email accounts (for example : accounts that has not been used for 1 year) this link may help to best answer: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-January/056320.html os : centos…
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Two servers mails

is that it is possible to have two mail servers in parallel, ie a primary through which mails are routed to the outside and a secondary for the exchange of mails locally. and the two servers are connected. In the secondary server was a copy of…
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E-mail transmission example

RFC standards literally force us to accept unencrypted connections on port 25. To understand why, we have to understand how emailing works. But emailing is quite a complex topic and I created this example together with a table to try and understand…
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Transitioning from a POP only email account to new IMAP enabled account - how can subsequent emails to the old POP only email be supported?

I have just started working for a growing small business. I am the first person they've had with any real technology background and from this point onward I will be organising and managing any IT systems for the business. One task is to improve the…
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POP download from now on

Is it possible to configure options on email server containing Postfix and Dovecot, features similar to Gmail settings: Enable POP for all mail (even mail that's already been downloaded) Enable POP for mail that arrives from now on I looked a lot…
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