What is POP? Or POP3? Or a POP account? And what about SMTP?

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Had to rebuild my Windows Xp computer.
Input the wrong pop3 and smtp addresses.
How do I get to the place where I can correct these entries? It just won't connect to the internet.

I'm trying to add another account to my Windows Live Messenger and I have everything else but it's telling me that I need to put in my "POP server". I don't even know what that is! How would I find that?

? re my level of competence: I don't even know what's meant by using HTML tags for style ;-)and you expect me to really comprehend all the logic and intricacies of pop3, SMTP, IMAP, whatever?;-)) It was six years before I realized I could move 'Windows'. I've used ONLY Yahoo's web based email program, and whatever I have not deleted I can access on-line. I'd like to insure permenant accessibility to that material and hope I could handle simple directions, if there are any, as opposed to theoretical or technical explanations, to achieve this goal. That there were recent comments was encouraging, even though I'm even dizzier now that I've read them ;-)). Would downloading an 'application' such as Thunderbird, et al, be the route to go? Is transferring or sharing this material possible somewhere else on line, in the event Yahoo 'goes down' for example?. I use two different ISPs and have a few web-based email accounts and run XPsp2, if any of this makes a difference. I am in a panic which may account for why much of the discussion isn't sticking to the brain. I sure hope you are for real.

I,m trying to use windows mail for my emails I'm with optusnet
windows asks whos my incoming mail pop3server
and whats my outgoing email smtp name
no idea!
must have it half right as it's picking up my in mail but I can't send

I was trying to scan an news article to e-mail to a friend, scanned ok, put in the e-mail address and I recieved an ERR message.
Same as #1 that Rene on 11/11/2008 recieved about the POP# etc....What does that mean??What do I need to do. I have windows XP??

Good day! I've read the article and I'm still confused. The scenario is this: I am using Yahoo! Mail for sending/receiving e-mails but I would like to use Mozilla Thunderbird instead.How will I connect my Yahoo! Mail account with my Mozilla Thunderbird account? how will I know what's my POP and SMTP? Hope you could help me?

By the way, I'm using Windows Vista as my computer's OS.

I'll be glad if you could help me with that.

Somehow I have enabled POP email on my computer. It doesn'y work & I don't want it. Every outgoing MSN email is not sent unless I change my "from" address to a MSN designation on the dropdown. If I forget to do that, the message is not sent. How do I terminate it?

I have a yahoo account and I am trying to use Entourage on a Mac to send and receive my emails.
I keep getting the -3260 error. Connection error has occurred. Do you have any advice ?

I am getting that port 110 error how do I fix it on this computer. I have set up my emails on another computer and everything is working alright and then when I go to my own computer it is giving me this error report:The host 'mail.clients-login.com' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the server name correctly. Account: 'mail.clients-login.com', Server: 'mail.clients-login.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11004, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D. PLEASE HELP URGENTLY

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