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Pop3 V SMTP

SMTP is a protocol used to transmit email messages between servers across IP networks in a push manner. It verifies server configuration, sends messages to recipients, and checks delivery status. While it cannot authenticate senders, ESMTP adds authentication and support for attachments. POP3 is a protocol for users to retrieve emails from servers to local machines, generally removing messages from the server. It allows checking mailbox size and message count, and works well for offline access, but IMAP may be better for always-on connections.

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Pop3 V SMTP

SMTP is a protocol used to transmit email messages between servers across IP networks in a push manner. It verifies server configuration, sends messages to recipients, and checks delivery status. While it cannot authenticate senders, ESMTP adds authentication and support for attachments. POP3 is a protocol for users to retrieve emails from servers to local machines, generally removing messages from the server. It allows checking mailbox size and message count, and works well for offline access, but IMAP may be better for always-on connections.

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SMTP and POP3: What’s Your Function?

by  R ICH C   on MAY 26, 2010

What is SMTP?
SMTP stands forSimple Mail Transfer Protocol. SMTP is an Internet standard used to
transmit email messages between two servers across different IP (Internet Protocol)
networks. It is a text-based protocol in which the text message is specified along with the
list of recipients for the message. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is a ‘push’ protocol and it
cannot be used to pull message from the server. However, it has a special feature through
which it can start email queuing process on a remote server. Owing to this feature, the
requesting system can receive the messages directed to it.
Functions of SMTP:
1. SMTP verifies the configuration and allows the computer to send messages. Simple mail
transfer protocol then sends the message to the prescribed destination and keeps a tab on it
to check if the message is successfully delivered or not. If the message is not delivered to
the intended recipient, it sends an error message to the sender of the message.
2. SMTP has one drawback. That is its inability to authenticate the senders, which often
results in e-mail spamming. Today, an enhanced version of SMTP is available, also referred
to as Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (ESMTP). You can use ESMTP to send e-mails
that includes graphics and other attachments.

What is POP3?
POP3 is an Internet based standard used for retrieving e-mail by a user from an e-mail
server. POP is an acronym for Post Office Protocol. The POP3 is the version of POP. The third
version of POP has made the first two versions – POP1 and POP2 obsolete. POP is basically
used to provide simple remote access to mailboxes. POP3 allows mail clients to connect and
download their messages; these messages are generally removed from the server and
stored on the clients’ local machine.
This implies that you need do be sure that all the machines are backed up in order to
prevent losing the information on your email messages. To overcome this problem, you can
use IMAP4 or Web Mail clients that allow messages to be manipulated on the server.

POP3 is currently the most widely used e-mail protocol. One of the most important features
of POP3 is its ability to check the size of the mailbox and the message count.

POP3 works well in offline environment. It also works well with an always-on connection,
but with some warnings which becomes clear when compared to IMAP.

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