What are POP3, IMAP, and SMTP?

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☝️ POP, POP3, IMAP, and SMTP are all acronyms used in configuring email. We'll look at what they mean and how they relate. ☝️ POP3, IMAP, SMTP POP3: Post Office Protocol version 3, used to download email. IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol, used to access email via multiple devices. SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, used to send mail from one computer or server to the next. Updates, related links, and more discussion: https://askleo.com/2143 🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: https://go.askleo.com/ytsub ✅ Watch next ▶ Be Careful Deleting Email If You Use IMAP ▶ https://youtu.be/zPyyNpZIAjI Chapters 0:00 POP3, IMAP, and SMTP 0:50 POP: Post Office Protocol 2:00 IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol 3:50 SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol 5:00 Webmail works differently, mostly ❤️ My best articles: https://go.askleo.com/best ❤️ My Most Important Article: https://go.askleo.com/number1 More Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com to get your questions answered ☑️ https://newsletter.askleo.com to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter. ☑️ https://askleo.com/patron to help support Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com/all-the-different-ways-to-get-ask-leo/ for even more! #askleo #POP3 #IMAP