Through my own research I have learned what the Post Office Protocol is but I’m struggling to find any specifics. I am trying to find out the format of the addressing scheme and how it operates.
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POP3 is defined in RFC 1939. I’m not sure what you are even referring to by “addressing scheme”. Your email is held on the POP server, but the server doesn’t send email.
Can you elaborate on addressing scheme?
POP3 is a protocol to download messages from a mail server. It doesn’t actually send or receive email.
The only thing I can think of that would involve addressing is connecting to the server in the first place which is just standard dns to resolve hostnames to ip address and tcp/ip for communication.
I need to ask for clarification. What do you mean by addressing?
POP3 is intended for a user to pick up their email. The messages are formatted under the usual rules of header and body so email addresses are all typical there.
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