POP
-- (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 a way that e-mail
client software such as Eudora gets mail from a mail server.
When you obtain an account from an Internet Service Provider
(ISP) 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. Another protocol called IMAP is replacing
POP for email.
See
also: Client,
Email,
ISP,
Server
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