Setting Up POP3 and SMTP E-Mail Accounts in Outlook XP by David Horowitz

Perhaps you’d like to learn a little more about setting up POP3/SMTP access from Outlook. Well, you’re in luck – keep reading! POP3 - The Technical Stuff POP3 stands for Post Office Protocol - Version 3. The “governing body” that specifies how POP3 works is the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The IETF main web site is www.ietf.org. You can find detailed information about POP3 on the IETF RFC Editor web site – www.rfc-editor.org. Specifically, the POP3 specification document can be found at ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1939.txt. read more...