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Category 3.1.1 Email (Messaging) Systems, Gateways, and Interfaces

Standard Name: POP3

Description: The Post Office Protocol - Version 3 (POP3) is intended to permit a workstation to dynamically access a maildrop on a server host to allow it to retrieve mail that the server is holding for it.

Standard Number: RFC2449

Standard Reference: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2449.txt

Industry Usage: True

Org. Usage: True


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