Question

What is the difference between SMTP and POP? Give detailed answer.​

Answer 1

Answer:

The key difference between SMTP and POP3 is that SMTP is a message transfer agent and POP3 is message access agent. ... SMTP is used for sending mail from sender computer to receivers mail server. On the other hands, POP3 is used to retrieve and organize mails from mailbox present on receiver's mail server.