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What is a POP3 mail box?

POP3 stands for Post Office Protocol 3 and describes the method used by your computer to access email messages held on a remote server. Incoming messages are stored at a POP server until the user logs in and downloads the messages to their computer.

While SMTP is used to transfer email messages from server to server, POP is used to collect mail with an email client from a server.