What do SMTP and POP mean?
SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, the computer language used to describe how email is delivered from one Internet computer to another. When you send mail to an SMTP server (a computer somewhere on the Internet), that computer in turn sends the email to the appropriate computer on the Internet. POP stands for Post Office Protocol, the language used by computers to describe how email is retrieved by the user. If you have an email account where you routinely pick up your email, you probably do so through a POP server, though some online services maintain their own proprietary email transfer system. Frequently, POP and SMTP servers are the same computer. Some ISPs (Internet Service Providers) use one server for receiving email (POP Server) and another for sending email (SMTP Server). Click here for email forwarding setup information.
