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'''Post Office Protocol (POP)''' is a client-server messaging protocol in the Internet Protocol Suite, which pulls messages from a mail storage server to the client machine.  
'''Post Office Protocol''' is a client-server messaging protocol for [[Email|email]] which requires messages to be downloaded to a client's computer, phone or tablet for reading. The version now used is version 3, thus called "POP3". It is described in RFC 1939.
 
{{r|http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1939 RFC-1939}} "Post Office Protocol - Version 3", J.Myers, M.Rose, 1996.

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Post Office Protocol is a client-server messaging protocol for email which requires messages to be downloaded to a client's computer, phone or tablet for reading. The version now used is version 3, thus called "POP3". It is described in RFC 1939.

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