Hello Chris!  
      
On 19/10/2002, Chris Hoppman wrote to All:
CH>   I was wondering how these protocals work. I know that smtp sends
CH> mail for 
CH> your system.  Does it also recieve mail or is that the pop3.  That
CH> mail 

Pop3 stands for Post offfice protocol and Smtp Simple mail Transport Protocol

Basiclly in a standard home user system you receive mail via pop3 and send via SMTP.

Sometimes you can recive mail via SMTP if your ISP alllow's it but the drawback is 
you get everything dumped in your mail box using smtp if you want it or not 
where as POP3 has the caplebility to recevie messages from the server, keep
messages on the sever, view messages on the 
server and delete messages from the server. 


Regards,
Simon Woodland

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