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.

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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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