A free email is where a service provides you with a email address for free. POP3 is a method of downloading your email off of the mail server and onto your computer, or somewhere else.
POP3 and IMAP4
POP3 refers to the email settings needed by an email program (such as Outlook) to retrieve emails from the email server. POP3 settings include the address of the incoming and outgoing mail servers, user name and password, security settings and incoming and outgoing port numbers.
POP3
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.
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"E-mail hosting providers will vary according to the needs of the consumer, whether it is a business or a private party. Most companies use POP3 based e-mail applications that are open sourced."
POP3 stands for post office protocol. It is the most recent version of a standard protocol for receiving email.
There are probably lots of reasons! These may include: Email forwarding POP3 IMAP
Pop3
POP3 is actually Post Office Protocol 3 which is an enhanced version of the standard protocol for receiving email. POP3 is a client/server protocol in which the email can be received. There are other protocols such as Internet Message Access Protocol(IMAP) Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). if this answer is wrong,correct me..
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.