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Post Office Protocol (POP3) is typically preferred by medium to small businesses. It is geared towards the office that wants to concentrate and schedule their e-mail access. They want one mail server and the ability to supply all of its employees with email capabilities. It also provides smaller businesses the ability to register their own company domain name. This allows them to manage their own user email accounts. Once they have this service established they have control over creating and editing each users mail account.
With Mail Delivery Method B, POP3, all established users and their email accounts are defined on the eMail Station server, not at the Internet Service Provider (ISP). A main account or master account is established with the ISP instead in which all incoming mail is stored. Once again this eliminates the need for multiple stand-alone accounts. A domain name is needed for this delivery method and your ISP can help you obtain your domain name.
How it works
Messages between local users are stored on the eMail Station without being transmitted to the ISP. Messages from users on the Internet are stored under a master account at the ISP on the POP3 mail server. When you are connected to the Internet, email is retrieved from the ISP and stored on the eMail Station. A user on the local network is then able to get the email from the eMail Station through an email client.
To have the mail stored properly at the ISP while the eMail Station is offline, it must be routed with an appropriate Mail Exchange (MX) record to the POP3 server destination. (Similar to Method A, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).
Review the Internet Service Provider (ISP) Checklist Overview which will provide the ISP additional information pertaining to the Intel® InBusiness™ eMail Station, and its corresponding technology (Mail Delivery Methods A, B or C).
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