To receive email you need an email provider, a connection to your provider and an email application; if your Internet Service Provider has a POP server you have a wide choice of email applications. What does the acronym POP stand for?
APage Overlay Protocol
BPost Office Protocol ✓ Correct
CPower Outage Protocol
DPostal Off Protocol
Correct answer: (B) Post Office Protocol
Explanation
POP stands for Post Office Protocol, used by an email client to retrieve messages from a mail server.
Page Overlay Protocol is not a real email standard.
Power Outage Protocol has nothing to do with email delivery.
Postal Off Protocol is not a genuine networking term.
The current common version is POP3, the third revision of the protocol.
IMAP is an alternative that keeps mail stored on the server.
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