You may have noticed with your email software, and with our webmail facility, that you are given the option of accessing your email through either POP3 or IMAP4. These are two different protocols. With your email software, POP3 is downloaded directly from the mail server onto your computer. Your computer will store a “local copy” [...]
Category Archives: Email, SMTP, POP3/IMAP and Exchange
What is a POP or POP3 mailbox?
December 9, 2010 – 6:21 pm
POP (or POP3) is an early email protocol used to access mailboxes. It’s very simple and remains popular despite its age, however many users are now starting to find that IMAP better meets their needs. POP box is a term that is widely used but is not accurate, throughout our documentation you’ll find them referred [...]
What is SMTP?
December 9, 2010 – 6:20 pm
SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, a protocol for sending email messages between servers. Most email systems that send mail over the Internet use SMTP to send messages from one server to another; the messages can then be retrieved with an email client using an email download protocol (usually either POP3). In addition, SMTP [...]
