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Post Office Protocol, version 3.

The Post Office Protocol (POP) is an application-layer Internet standard protocol used by local e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection.

The acronym POP is usually accompanied by a version number. The first (POP1) was introduced in 1984, the second (POP2) in 1985 and the last (POP3) in 1988. Nowadays, POP stands for POP3.

See wiki for refence: Post Office Protocol

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Can I control how often Gmail polls POP3 accounts for incoming mail?

I use Gmail to handle my mail, but it's mostly imported by Gmail from an external POP3 account. Normally this works fine, but I;ve had some instances where Gmail has gone almost 24 hours without even trying to contact the POP3 server. Now, on Gmail…
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Prevent Gmail telling me about an email that contains a virus or suspicious attachment?

I have a Gmail account which is set to pull in emails from an old POP3 account. For various reasons, I need to keep doing this. At least several times a day I will get the following email from "Gmail Team": The message "something spammy" from Fake…
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Why does Gmail keep "forgetting" my POP3 password when it checks a third-party account?

I have a Gmail account that's configured to check a third-party POP3 account located on another server. Every few days (apparently) Gmail stops checking mail from the POP3 account and reports that the other server dropped the connection. Rechecking…
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Replying from Gmail with custom POP3 settings and auto selecting the associated custom SMTP settings

I set up Gmail to add a POP3 and SMTP server for sending mail. Whenever I get mail to that new address though, and I press on reply it still tries to reply by default by using my @gmail.com address. Is there a way that when I get mail to that new…
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Will my Gmail account be inactivated if I only access it via POP3?

I created two accounts for my little kids to act as memoirs repositories and in theory nobody will need to access the accounts for the next 18 years or so. The idea is just to send cool stuff there and give them access once they grow up (assuming…
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Consume emails from G Suite into my personal Gmail

I have enabled Pop3 access on my G Suite Gmail app, and have made sure in the admin panel that Pop3 is allowed. When I go into my personal gmail though and try adding the G Suite pop account, I'm told There was a problem connecting to…
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How do I import mail from one Gmail account to another Gmail account?

If you google that question as is, you get a plethora of links and "how to's" on how to do it. This and this or this, are practically useless. They are badly written, some steps are "missing" (like how do you go from Forwarding and POP/IMAP to so…
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How to add to five POP3 email accounts?

I currently have five POP3 emails in my Gmail account. I need to add four more POP3 accounts. Is there any way to add more POP3 accounts to my Gmail or do I need to create a Google Apps account - or what are the possibilities?
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New messages are not fetched via POP from Gmail

I use a local mail client (Opera's) to automatically backup all my mails from GMail. I set it up once and I forgot about it. Today it occured to me to check how the backing up works and turns out the last mail downloaded from Gmail is from March…
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How to use gmail POP and IMAP from multiple clients simultaneously?

I use gmail POP with Mail.app on a Mac. It works well for me, and with seven years of emails in it I don't want to change. It's my main place for email and a backup of gmail as well. I've now got an iPad. I'd like to enable IMAP on gmail so I can…
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Import external emails into Gmail only once per day at 8pm

In a Gmail account example@gmail.com, I'd like to import new emails from activity2@gmail.com (or from activity2@hotmail.com) only once per day at 8pm, to avoid being disturbed constantly at any time time of the day with the emails related to this…
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How many mails would cause this error to show in Gmail "There are too many messages on the other server. Please delete some mail from..."

I'm downloading my email to a private Gmail account, from another POP3 server (SmarterMail Server 4.3). In Gmail I'm getting the error: Error: Too many messages to download. Server returned error "There are too many messages on the other server.…
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Using Gmail web interface email client for 3rd party mailboxes?

This Google guide talks about configuring ones Gmail (e.g. me@gmail.com) to fetch emails from another mail service (e.g. me@myorganization.com) via POP3 into as well as being able to send emails as me@myorganization.com from Gmail. But if you…
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How to set up POP3 from Google Apps to Google Apps?

I have Google Apps standard edition with two accounts - account A and account B. I want to redirect all emails from one account (account A) to the other one (account B). Works nicely but... when Redmine sends an email as user account A via Google…
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Gmail labels - How to apply to POP3?

I have created some filters in gmail with the intention to automatically move messages to folders in Windows Live Mail or any POP3 reader. My idea is to mark the messages with a different "label" in gmail and then use that label to create rules in…
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