How does a POP3 mail server work?
POP3 mail servers store incoming email messages on the server until you download them using a mail client like Netscape, Outlook Express, Eudora, or Pegasus. As messages are downloaded to your computer, they are deleted (optional) from the mail server and stored on your computer. ISPs commonly provide at least one (up to 10) POP3 email account as part of their Internet dial-up package, so chances are you already have one or more POP3 email addresses such as “yourname@yourisp.com”. Advantages of POP3 email … most ISPs support POP3. After retrieving your messages, the messages can be read offline. Messages can be composed offline and sent the next time you connect to the Internet — at your convenience. You can configure your mail client not to delete incoming mail from your POP3 account and keep a copy of your messages on the mail server. If you receive a lot of mail, this is not a good idea since messages piling up at the mail server can easily exceed disk storage quotas. Only the be
