POP3 Email - E-mail for Personal & Business

POP3 Email for the Internet!

What is POP3 email?

Good question. POP3 stands for Post Office Protocol. The 3 stands for the current version of the protocol.

POP3 is the most recent version of a standard protocol for receiving e-mail. POP3 is a client/server protocol in which e-mail is received and held for you by your Internet server. Periodically, you (or your client e-mail receiver) check your mail-box on the server and download any mail.

POP3 mail can be retrieved by most popular e-mail products, such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Communicator, Eudora amd many more.

Some ask, Why pay for POP3 email when many offer the service for free?

123m.com's answer is simple. There are no free lunches. If a mail service is giving away their mailboxes, they are making money some other way. Most likely, they are doing this via advertising!

They advertise within your email, or they resell private information they collect from you as you use their service.

123m.com is a private email provider. You pay us a small fee each year which allows us to keep our facilities state-of-the-art, providing you with exceptional service. After that, we mind our own business.

123m.com does not allow spammers to use our service, nor will we ever resell your email address or private information to any third party. Back to Top

Typically, when using web-access, your email is stored on our server. You logon via the internet, read, reply and manage your mail while online.

With POP3, you typically use an email client, such as Outlook Express, to download your mail from our server to your PC. It then is the client that helps you read, reply and manage your email. Back to Top

Yes! Using the standard POP3/SMTP protocols, the 123m.com system works well with PDA's. Back to Top

This depends on how much email you receive, whether or not you receive many file attachments and whether you will leaving your email on our server, or downloading it to your PC.

If you plan on using web-access, you typically need more space unless you delete older email messages on a frequent basis. When using a POP3 client and when downloading your email to your PC, then the question of mailbox size boils down to file attachments. If you plan to receive many large file attachments, you may need a larger mailbox to hold these until the next time you download.

Junk email is a fact of life. The more you submit your email to various websites, the more likely it is that you will receive junk email. 123m.com offers free alias accounts that can help you manage this.

Although your regular email address might be sample@123m.com, 123m.com can create an alias to this account, such as sample2@123m.com, that you can use to submit to websites.

Both emails end up in the same mailbox, but the alias makes it much easier for you to recognize and delete junk mail.