POP
Internet protocol used by your
ISP to handle
email for its subscribers. A POP account is just a synonym for an email account.
Picture-
On-
Picture that entails wide-screen viewing of up to three TV images simultaneously on 16:9 wide-screen TV. (See also
Wide-screen TV ,
PIP , and
Video )
An acronym for Point of Presence, POP is a service provider's location for connecting to users. Generally, POP refers to the location where people can dial into the provider's host computer. Most providers have several POPs to allow low-cost access via telephone lines.
(Point of Presence, also Post Office Protocol) -- Two commonly used meanings: Point of Presence and Post Office Protocol. A Point of Presence usually means a city or location where a network can be connected to, often with dial up phone lines. So if an Internet company says they will soon have a POP in Belgrade, it means that they will soon have a local phone number in Belgrade and/or a place where leased lines can connect to their network. A second meaning, Post Office Protocol refers to the way e-mail software such as Eudora gets mail from a mail server. When you obtain a SLIP, PPP, or shell account you almost always get a POP account with it, and it is this POP account that you tell your e-mail software to use to get your mail.
See: Post Office Protocol and Point Of Presence
A site where there exists a collection of telecommunications equipment, usually digital leased lines and multi-protocol routers.
A protocol designed to allow single user hosts to read mail from a server. There are three versions: POP, POP2, and POP3. Latter versions are NOT compatible with earlier versions. See also: Electronic Mail.
POP ( Post Office Protocol ) A protocol for client-server e-mail systems.If you are using software like Eudora or Pegasus or the mail clients in Netscape or MSIE,your address to collect mail often will begin with pop.For example,Delphi e-mail accounts use an address of pop.delphi.com to collect mail.
