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What is a POP3 mail box?
POP3 (Post Office Protocol) is a method used by your computer to access e-mail messages from a remote server. Incoming messages are stored at a POP server until the user logs in and downloads the messages to their computer. The current version is POP3.
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.
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