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hey guys in this video we're going to talk about a couple of different email protocols and these are pop3 and IMAP now these protocols are used for retrieving email from an email server so for example if you're using an email client such as Microsoft Outlook you would configure outlook with either pop3 or IMAP to retrieve your email on a computer and you can also use these protocols on your tablet or smartphone to retrieve your email so you can use either one the choice is yours but the question is which protocol do you want to use is one better than the other so that's what we're going to talk about so let's talk about pop3 first now pop3 stands for post office protocol 3 now pop3 is the simplest of the two protocols because the only thing that pop3 does is download the email to your device from a mail server and it only downloads what's in your inbox folder which is where your email is and that's pretty much it it doesn't download any other folders or ...