Monday, November 19, 2018

POP3 versus SMTP versus IMAP

Version 3 of Post Office Protocol allows you to receive emails. Internet Message Access Protocol allows you to read emails kept on a remote server which will NOT be popped off to your Outlook client. The POP3 approach destroys the records at the remote locale once you have them locally while the IMAP way just looks to the remote locale. Get it? Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is for sending NOT receiving.

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