What is a "POP server"?

What is a "POP server"?

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POP stands for post office protocol. It's one of many standardized communications protocols that allows for capturing and interacting with e-mail on the web. Specifically what a pop enabled mail server allows you to do is use your local mail client like an outlook and outlook express Mac mail program to actually fetch that mail for you from your web post, from your server bring it down to your computer locally. It's very effective way of fetching mail downloading mail quickly and allows you to organize it easily and really track all your communications.