Post Office Protocol, Version 3

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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An Internet Standard protocol by which a client workstation can dynamically access a mailbox on a server host to retrieve mail messages that the server has received and is holding for the client.

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Classifications

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Entity Type

Network92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

acronym: POP3
plural: Post Office Protocol, Version 3s
possessive: Post Office Protocol, Version 3's
pluralpossessive: Post Office Protocol, Version 3s'

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