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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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Verify IMAP/POP3 connection to Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5

I wanted to fully explore IMAP connections from the command line, if I can connect via Thunderbird, then I should be able to via telnet?! Microsoft detail IMAP login as :- LOGIN NTDOMAIN/NTACCOUNT/ALIAS PASSWORD The settings in my Thunderbird are…
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Mixing personal (SMTP/POP) and business (Exchange) mail in Outlook

Although I haven't done it, I'm pretty sure that you can set up Outlook (2010) to work with both SMTP/POP email and with Exchange simultaneously. Here is the scenario: I work with a group of independent contractors and we want to have joint email,…
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Bulk add/remove accounts to/from SBS2003 POP3 connector

Is this possible? I (attempt to, at least) maintain our SBS2003 box, which uses POP3 Connector to retrieve email. I am regularly asked to add/remove several accounts at once, usually for the same domain, and it is a laborious process to type in the…
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Recover hard deleted items from Exchange

My MD had a clear out of her mailbox (anything from september 2011 back to 2005 was deleted!) she is now majorly regretting this as there was contracts etc etc in there. Now I have looked in OWA but the deleted items are all gone, what gives me a…
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Setting MX records to allow different servers to send and receive email

I have a site (mydomain.com) that uses the hosting service to send and receive emails (the MX points to mail.mydomain.com). Now I want to keep the same server to send emails but use a third party service to receive and process the incoming emails…
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Recommendations for POP3/IMAP software for Windows Server 2003 and migration

We are currently in the process of migrating websites from a Windows server running Parallels Business Automation to a Windows Server not running Parallels. Can anyone recommend a POP3/IMAP/SMTP software application preferably free that we can use…
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How to install POP3 and SMTP in Postfix?

I have Postfix installed on an Ubuntu box, but now I need to configure POP3 and SMTP. Is there some guide on how to do this?
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Windows mail server that supports username wildcard aliases?

Is there any free mail server (in this case POP3) for Windows that supports aliases? e.g. User name: iboyd Aliases: ian@serverfault.com ian.*@serverfault.com amanda@serverfault.com *@ianboyd.com User name:…
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Starting pop3 and imap services on Mac OS X

I'm running Mac OS X (Leopard) and I've just activated Postix, as well as installed UW imapd (a server capable of handling both IMAP and POP3 traffic). The issue I'm having is that I don't know what file holds the commands to have Leopard start up…
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how to setup a service that will forward pop3 emails to another pop3 server

I have a pop3 account only accessible from the localhost ip (its a gatewate service running locally and cannot be exposed outside of the machine) I would like to setup a service (its a windows 7 machine) that will retrieve any email on that…
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Problem with POP3 protocol & iPhone

We've run a custom pop3 server without problems for many years. But now some clients are trying to use iPhones and there is some mysterious incompatibility. For emails over a certain size (for tests we use around 32K) the iPhone just retrieves…
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How to use different address for pop.gmail.com

I've been searching for a way to hide the gmail server name (pop.gmail.com and smtp.gmail.com). I want the email client (outlook) to point to our own server (say, pop.myserver.com), which in the end route to the real server. I tried the DNS CN…
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Exchange 2007 SP2 install issue

We currentlty have a Windows Server 2003 x64 running Exchange 2007 SP2. We just recently updated to SP2. I believe the person that was running the update might have tried to install it twice. Our issue is that now the imap4, pop3 and Microsoft…
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Ubuntu: mailserver + database

I want a mailserver on Ubuntu that saves e-mail in the database and uses users in the database to let them login into the POP server and SMTP server. There are also different domains. How can I do this? Regards, Kevin
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Ubuntu: mailserver + database

Possible Duplicate: Ubuntu: mailserver + database I want a mailserver on Ubuntu that saves e-mail in the database and uses users in the database to let them login into the POP server and SMTP server. There are also different domains. How can I do…
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