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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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Regular POP3D Attacks and Blocks

I'm using a self-hosted wordpress blog. I'm using Gmail to access my domain email accounts. I want to know, is built-in email services such as exim, etc are necessary if we are using Gmail to manage emails? I have only 2 accounts on server: root and…
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Qmail Logs - POP3/IMAP Account Access Logs?

I would like to find a way to map account access to ip addresses. The situation is that I believe there are multiple sources accessing the same account via pop3. I want to see the ip addresses that are connecting to a specific account via a…
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Nginx configuration as a POP3/SMTP reverse proxy on DMZ

Possible Duplicate: nginx as smtp proxy i am here to ask help about how to configure Nginx as a reverse proxy for POP3/SMTP service. We have a Zimbra server offering services as webmail, POP/SMTP, Calendar, etc. The Zimbra server inside the LAN…
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Transfer WebMail Client mails to another WebMail Cleint

I was using web mail client provided from my hosting company. Everything i was reading or sending it was done there. Now i want to install my own web mail client like Round cube or similar. 1) Can i transfer my mails from old one to my new? 2) When…
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Gmail trying to access hMailServer via POP3 Error

I just setup a new mail server called hMailServer on a Windows server after switching from Merak. Most users setup access through Gmail to download their messages via POP3. One user, who has a few thousand emails, keeps getting an error: Error…
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getmail is not configured with imap and pop server

Today i am setup getmail to retrieve emails with exim4 for sending mails on my linode vps server. In configuration [getmailrc] file, i am using imap server with port number 143 shown below: [retriever] type = SimpleIMAPRetriever server =…
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Exchange 2010 can't find SSL certificate that exists

I'm trying to set up TLS for the POP3 server in the Exchange CAS role. I purchased a cert from NameCheap, and the CA path is fully trusted, and installed it within the Certificates MMC snap-in without any trouble. However Exchange 2010 doesn't seem…
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Dovecot not working pop3 with postfix

$ telnet localhost pop3 Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused $ netstat -l tcp 0 0 *:www : LISTEN tcp 0 0 localhost.localdoma:ipp : LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:smtp : LISTEN tcp 0 0…
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plesk + high POP3/IMAP traffic, how to check details?

Please check this image, it's a screenshot from plesk 10 of 1 domains mail traffic: This domain has about 1GB POP3/IMAP (OUT) traffic each day. I know that this is not normal because I know the owner and how he's using his mail. It's just some…
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SBS2011 - exchange 2010 - NEw mailbox accounts not showing in list of pop3 connector

I have migrated a SBS2003 --> SBS2011 and configured the pop3 connector for all the migrated mailboxes, which works fine. But when I create any new accounts, they are not listed as available accounts to retrieve pop3 email for. I cannot see them in…
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What's a good way of handing pop3 mail to an imap server?

I've got several POP3 accounts that need to be collected and handed to an IMAP server. This must be safe, so anything racey or non-atomic won't work. How should I do this?
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Stunnel Error binding pop3s to 0.0.0.0:110

I'm setting up stunnel so a non SSL enabled app can access a Gmail / Google Apps account. Here's the config I'm using: CLIENT=YES [pop3s] accept = 110 connect = pop.gmail.com:995 [imaps] accept = 143 connect = imap.gmail.com:993 [ssmtp] accept =…
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Exchange User unable to receive SOME internal mail

One of our Users is having a strange issue, before explaining the issue I should clarify that our user Exchange server is collecting mail using a POP3 connector. (not sure if it's relevant) The user having the issue can receive all external. However…
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Can I force dovecot to ignore pop3 requests to delete received email?

this is my first SF question, so please be gentile: Is there an easy way to force dovecot pop3 server to ignore "delete messages" commands after being fetched by the MUA? Here are the issues I'm facing: my boss wants to force everyone into a…
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Secure POP3/SMTP proxy?

An ISP doesn't offer secure/encrypted POP3/SMTP connections to its email servers. (I could forward the mail to another mail service that does, but I'd like to try a proxy) Is there some simple software that could be run on a linux box to allow…
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