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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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Gmail POP3 Error

I am using POP3 to get my Exchange/Outlook email into Gmail. Whenever Gmail attempts to receive mail, the following error occurs: Error: Server is temporarily unavailable. Mail cannot be retrieved from this account at this time. With the following…
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POP3 Server Folder Structure Mirroring

Is there any way I can mirror my e-mail reader (Windows Live Mail) the folder structure I made on the webmail application (Outlook Web App)? Currently I have some three or four folders on the server but WLM doesn't recognize them and puts everything…
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