Post Office Protocol/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Email system [r]: General overview of how the Internet electronic mail system works. ^[e]
• Email processes and protocols [r]: Brief explanation of an email system at the relay level. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Simple Mail Transfer Protocol [r]: In the Internet Protocol Suite, SMTP is the basic method for transferring the "envelopes" of electronic mail among servers performing the electronic "post office" function, not the user mailbox function. ^[e]
• Internet Message Access Protocol [r]: A client-server messaging protocol for Email which allows messages to be stored indefinitely on the server. ^[e]

Articles related by keyphrases (Bot populated)

• POP3 [r]: A client-server messaging protocol for email which requires messages to be downloaded to a client's computer, phone or tablet for reading. ^[e]