Yes, Charter is known for using an POP3 email setup in their work. They even invite their customers to make an email through them and to contact them if they have questions or in need of help.
The benfits of using Charter Net Email are that the email accounts are free, they have comparable storage data limits amongst their competitors, email can be accessed anywhere with an internet connection.
POP3 and IMAP4
POP3 stands for post office protocol. It is the most recent version of a standard protocol for receiving email.
The short answer is that IMAP can do everything that POP3 is capable of plus it allows you to create folders on our servers where your email is received and stored, as opposed to only on a client machine with POP3. Using IMAP, you create a single folder organization for storing your email, and any IMAP client (from any machine you use) will see that same structure. If you check email from several different machines, you see the same folder structure and messages from each machine. And, if you choose to have copies of your email on your home computer similar to POP3, IMAP allows you to synchronize your home computer with your email on our servers by pulling a copy of your email onto your local machine. Unlike POP3, your messages won't tend to get scattered among the various machines you use to check email.
We use mircsoft ourlook client to download email from email-server. It uses POP3 or IMAP protocol to download emails to client
Web-based email is a user service, providing a simple interface to use different email sending/receiving protocols, which POP3 is.
"Well, most email mailboxes use either POP3 or IMAP to retrieve your emails." Most email programs support both POP3 (Post Office Protocol) and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) for pulling emails from a TCP/IP connection.
Most email clients use one of three protocols to receive an email message. They are SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), POP (Post Office Protocol), or IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol).
pop3
Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 email server. It is used to send emails on the Linux/UNIX-like computer systems.
Most email programs that use individual clients use POP (Post office protocol). Web based programs like Yahoo and Gmail use http protocol.
"Yes, Charter internet service does include an email account. It is still also helpful (in opinion) to keep your regular, seeing as you may chose not to use the new account."