What is the difference between smtp and pop3?

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What is the difference between smtp and pop3?..

Answer / majeed090

Smtp is a protocol transferring mails and pop3 retrieves the
mail and saved locally.

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What is the difference between smtp and pop3?..

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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What is the difference between smtp and pop3?..

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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