POP means “ Post Office Protocol” and latest version of this protocol is version 3 and is popularly known as ‘ POP3‘.
POP is an ‘ application layer internet standard protocol‘ which is basically used by the local email clients to retrieve email from any remote server. You can configure it for Gmail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook mail or any other private email clients which support POP. To retrieve any email from remote server you require to configure pop setting for email. This is the modern and the digital version of postal technique. Now-a-days, we always use web based electronic mail (email) service to send and receive information. Before going to the configuration section of Gmail POP3 settings, just learn a few words on ‘ Pop email settings‘.
