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POP (Post Office Protocol)

Definition

POP (Post Office Protocol) is a basic store and forward mail handling system MIT used to use. When you connect to the mail server, your mail is downloaded to your machine (or home directory on Athena) and deleted from the server. It does not support reading mail from multiple locations or have the modern message handling features of the IMAP protocol or Exchange.

See also

IMAP
Exchange

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Last Modified:

May 20, 2015

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