As well as being supported by local e-mail clients POP3 is also supported by most webmail services such as Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. POP3 is just one communications protocol on the web. Others include: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) tcp User Datagram Protocol (UDP) udp Internet Control ...
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Getting local POP mailbox messages into Gmail
I currently bring my Gmail mail into Thunderbird via POP for backup purposes (POP is just the way I roll).
Should I ever need to push that mail back onto Gmail via IMAP using Thunderbird - is the ...
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Sync email from outlook to pop3 mailbox
I was accessing a customers mailbox for some troubleshooting and I forgot to uncheck the "delete messeges from server" option in outlook so all his emails are gone from the server.
Is there any way ...
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Windows Live Mail client caused all my Network Solutions email to be deleted?
I was downloading my mail from Network Solutions' server via POP on Windows Live Mail. The download failed halfway through, so I deleted the emails via Windows Live Mail. When I went back to the ...
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Outlook 2010 POP3 Mail
I'm having a little trouble with Outlook 2010 not "delivering" e-mails from my ISP server.
Being a little more specific, the mail gets to my Outlook client, but it is still holding the mail on my ...
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Access email via Outlook 2007 and iPhone
I have a mail account with a webhost that is accessible via POP3 and IMAP.
Outlook 2007 on the PC is set up via IMAP.
I also have an iPhone 3G on which I want to access the mail.
The iPhone was set ...
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Windows Mail unable to send after stalling pop server
I have 2 users that are unable to send email through their Windows Mail (Win 7).
One user exceeded our daily email limit and exceeded the number of recipients limit, and the other send many large ...
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Saving sent emails in Outlook 2010 not working for Pop3
I am using Outlook 2010 for my gmail emails which use IMAP I can set the system to store sent emails in the appropriate sent folder. For another account which uses POP3 I can't configure outlook to ...
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Connecting to POP/SMTP Server via Telnet
I am trying to connect to connect to an SMTP/POP server via telnet (port 25 and 110). However, I am not able to authenticate myself. Whenever I try to, it says (pop)
-ERR SPA Required, use AUTH or ...
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How can I move my mail from an offline folder to IMAP?
I have tried to setup an IMAP account in Outlook 2010. However, by mistake I made it POP and now the inbox folder is empty.
I now have the mails in an offline folder.
How can I move them back to my ...
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Download Gmail emails via HTTP
On my local university the public internet connection has POP and IMAP filtered; only HTTP and HTTPS are allowed. I'd like to use Thunderbird (or some other Email client) to download my Gmail emails ...
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Using Apple Mail as a native email client; Want to use Thunderbird to back up all of my Gmail
Let me start with my question and then I'll provide the context behind it:
Is there a way for me to create a full local backup of my Gmail account (all received and sent emails) using a program like ...
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Save copy of sent message on POP3 server
Whenever I send messages from Outlook, the sent messages are not getting saved on the server (POP3).
Is there any way to save a copy of the sent messages in the server?
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POP3 Server Folder Structure Mirroring
Is there any way I can mirror my e-mail reader (Windows Live Mail) the folder structure I made on the webmail application (Outlook Web App)? Currently I have some three or four folders on the server ...
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POP3 email checker similar to Gmail notifier for Windows?
Is there a free, pop3 email checker for Windows that behaves similar to Google's GMail Notifier? Minimize to Tray, and notification, double click to launch default email client?
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Merging IMAP account into gmail
I have a university email account which provides access only via IMAP and webmail, and which does not provide a usable email forwarding service. Is there any way of getting emails from this account ...
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How to setup mailserver on Windows XP standalone?
I'm playing with the javamail API. To test my code about the only thing that seems to work is to connect to my web email (yahoo/msn/gmail/rediff) and do the deed. The trouble with testing online is ...
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Is there a way to prevent Thunderbird from downloading attachments?
Is there a way to prevent Thunderbird from downloading attachments? I just want to download the message and leave attachments on the mail server. When I need to open the attachment I would then ...
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59 views
Sending personalized bulk email using POP3/IMAP
I have a list of email addresses and names that I'd like to send a mass email to. I would like the email to look something like:
From: me@gmail.com
To: email@example.com
Body: Hi [name], ...
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How can I backup my Gmail archive using Thunderbird?
I have setup POP access to Gmail using Thunderbird. At first, it only downloaded about 350 messages all from 2007. Then I switched my Gmail POP settings (inside Gmail) to include 'all mail ever' and ...
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Thunderbird 5 not deleting messages older than X when using POP3
I've been using my sites webmail (Squirrelmail) only for a few months due to a disk crash on my desktop that hosed my Thunderbird.
With the desktop up and running again, I installed Thunderbird 5 and ...
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How do I access POP through a proxy?
How do I access POP/IMAP/SMTP through a proxy? (The proxy settings in Thunderbird do not work.)
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De-duplication of BlackBerry mailboxes
I just migrated all of my e-mails from Yahoo through Hotmail and finally to GMX, which is a webmail provider that has both IMAP, POP & SMTP access and ownership by a company which is neither ...
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115 views
Getting email from Exchange to Gmail via IMAP
My employer, a university, just switched me to Microsoft Exchange from a POP3 based email server. They've disabled forwarding and POP3 access but allow IMAP access. In addition they have a very small ...
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Need to restore emails that Outlook deleted from the mail server
I wanted to use POP mail for my Yahoo mail account.
So I went to the Yahoo mail settings and enabled POP feature.
I installed Microsoft Outlook 2007 and added the settings for my Yahoo mail ...
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How do POP3 clients delete emails later?
For example Thunderbird has the POP3 option to "Leave messages on the server." If this is checked then you can check "For at most __ days." How does it delete your emails later? Does it tell the ...
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How do I get Thunderbird not to re-download all my emails after server move?
I've moved over all emails from 10 accounts on one server to another. I use IMAP so this won't be an issue for myself, but someone else using these email accounts uses pop3.
When I change the settings ...
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POP3 client not downloading all emails from server
I've an old email account (pop3) with lots of emails that I want to download. I don't care what client - but I'm currently trying with Thunderbird. It says that there are no new emails on the server. ...
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New Install of Outlook 2010 won't retrieve all messages from server
I recently got a new laptop, installed Outlook 2010, set up all my accounts and everything is running fine. However when I do a send/receive, my old emails pre-new install aren't being retrieved. I ...
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Outlook 2007 Download All POP Messages After Reinstall
I've recently reinstalled Outlook 2007 and am having an issue with existing emails being downloaded again.
I backed up and imported my PST so all original messages are in Outlook already. I have ...
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How to convert Exim emails downloaded via FTP so they can be imported into an email client?
I have backup folders of emails that I downloaded from an old server running Exim. I can open all the files in a text editor and read the contents and they are in standard RFC 822 format.
The ...
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Is There Email Client For Windows That Simultaneously Download From Multiple Accounts?
I use Outlook Express in Windows XP Home as email client, but i have many accounts and it takes time to download messages from all POP3 accounts.
Is there email client that allows for simultaneous ...
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224 views
Upload email (EML files) to POP server
I am trying to move my mails from one hosting provider to another.
I have downloaded my emails from my previous hosting provider (which supports IMAP) as EML files using a software. Now I have all my ...
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266 views
How to retrieve Hotmail Spam filtered messages via POP3?
I use Thunderbird to retrieve e-mail messages from my Hotmail, but some of them are auomatically marked as spam in Hotmail. So I have to use www.hotmail.com to move them to Hotmail Inbox and then I ...
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IMAP/POP3 weirdness: “deleting” email using iPhone causes POP3 UIDL to change?
When accessing e-mail by POP3, many e-mail clients identify messages they have already downloaded using an unique ID assigned by the server (shown by the POP3 UIDL command - I'll call it UID). On my ...
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Migrate e-mails from entourage to exchange or any other IMAP server
I'm having a quite difficult issue.
I have a laptop (mac) running entourage with a bunch (around 50) folders and subfolders (local), it has been setup to retrieve emails thru POP3.
Now I want to be ...
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iPhone accessing Microsoft Server 2003 POP3 Service preventing Outlook access for same mailbox
I'm running the POP3 service on my Server 2003 box, and have just recently run into login issues when accessing the same account with multiple devices. I've been running the server for years, with no ...
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Ubuntu Evolution POP3 send/receive deleted the files off of my server! How do I undelete (Get them back on)?
Actually did this with both my Hotmail and my Webmail.godaddy.com accounts. I now know how to tell it not to delete the emails in the future but can't seem to figure out how to replace the ones ...
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Thunderbird Automatically Get (POP) New Mail, Via the OS (Mac OS X)
I want the OS to check for new mail using my POP account in thunderbird without having to manually start thunderbird (its ok if thunderbird automatically starts as a windowed process and doesn't just ...
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POP3 Account suddenly cannot receive emai through SMTP l when used on Windows 7
I was using my ISP's POP3 email account with Windows Live Mail on Windows Vista. Today I upgraded to Windows 7 using a upgrade disk but using a custom install.
Before upgrading I exported my email ...
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In Thunderbird how to get mail on second computer?
I have been using one computer to access mail (with Outlook) and now I am trying to get all my mail from the server from another computer (using Thunderbird). But I can download only new mail.
I am ...
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Switch to another CPanel server, restore mailbox, how to stop Outlook POP3 pull mail data again
We switch from a linux CPanel server to another CPanel server, all the setting and file is restore back to the new Linux CPanel server.
E.g
xxx@xxx.com , inside the server I got 100mails. It had been ...
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Mac Mail retrieve mail same message over and over again
key facts:
Mac OS X v10.6.5
Mail v4.4
Retrieve messages folder in the Mail has the same message over and over again, it's 44.6MB file the computer saves again and again (1547 times) ~ 70GB.
Retrieved ...
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Intermittent POP3 errors - Re-Authentication Failure
I have an application that connects through POP3 over SSL. It mostly works correctly--but the last few days, I have been repeatedly getting this error: -ERR Re-Authentication Failure
What could ...
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Foward Outlook Web Access (OWA) to GMail using POP and SMTP
I want to receive all my company emails in my GMail... So I need to configure a POP/SMTP acess to my OWA account.
Problem is that I can't find the right pop server address to start the journey. :/
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What are differences between POP access and mail forwarding?
This is the situation: I have a mail account in a domain i bought (say example.com) and I want to manage it from my old gmail id itself. I have setup it such that I can send as that user from gmail ...
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Gmail POP3 Limit?
I have 398 messages in my inbox, but my application which is connecting to gmail's pop3 servers tells me that I have only 250. What's the problem?
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gmail download by POP3 won't download all emails. How to reset all emails to not downloaded so that ALL will download?
I want to download emails from gmail using POP3 with Outlook Express.
It downloads about 350 or so emails but doesn't download the remainder - there are over 2000 emails.
The emails downloaded are ...
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Can't view old Hotmail emails after Outlook setup
Ok I actually have an msn account "myname@msn.com" Ever since I tried to view my emails using Outlook 2007, I no longer can view my old emails from the Hotmail web interface.
I think I messed up the ...
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Is it preferable to use POP or IMAP to check multiple google mail accounts from one?
I have email accounts on several domains that use Google Mail, and thus far I've only ever used POP to send and receive mail from a single inbox. This is quite functional, and as long as I remember to ...
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Can multiple email clients use the same POP3 account?
I have a webmail account with POP3 enabled. I use Microsoft Outlook 2007 with this account, and it works well.
However, I'm curious as to what happens when I set up the same POP3 account elsewhere ...
