What is the difference between smtp and pop3?
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Answer / majeed090
Smtp is a protocol transferring mails and pop3 retrieves the
mail and saved locally.
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Answer / ravi
SMTP - Simple mail trasfer protocol
It's trafering the mail from soure to destination.
POP3 - post office protocal
It's saved the mails local computer.
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Answer / sujeet prajapati
SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol using bydefault port number : 25 (We can change it as per our needs) for sending and transfering mails to source and destination.
And
POP3 stands for Post Office Protocol using bydefault port 110(We can change it as per our needs) port number for receiving mails and savied in local computer.
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