What is POP?
Post Office Protocol in short POP is the
technology that is used for communication in the form of email. Email is the
most wanted service over internet in the entire world. For running the mail on
the net, it needs to a special language for sending and receiving
mail that is known as POP. POP is in the network programming
language.
It is the protocol that allows the computer to communicate the email server for
uploading and downloading the message whenever it is connected to
the computer. POP has the ability to download all of the
messages onto a local computer. So that the users can view all the downloaded
messages on their system whenever they want to view in the absence
of internet connection. POP has a small email server with some
limited space that saves the money of the consumer or company.
POP has one drawback that it download the mail on the individual system,
and if you don't have that system in the other place, you can't see your
mail. So this technology is beneficial when you have
your system and don't have internet connection. The only
solution of this problem is to have IMAP and Microsoft Exchange Server email
accounts that allows the user to read all email directly from
the server and the user can read all his/her mail from anywhere no matter what computer the user is
using, but internet connection must be there.
