
Download your emails from other email services into your Mailfence account (using Mailfence POP3 client) Note: for security reasons, Mailfence POP3 servers support only SSL (port 995), original well-known port (port 110) is not available. The Mailfence server will act upon the specifications defined by the user in the client program (e.g., keep a copy on the server or not, …). The settings for your POP3 client can be found in the Mailfence webmail, under “Settings -> Account -> My connection settings”, as well as in the Online Help section. Users can fetch their emails stored on Mailfence servers securely (over SSL/TLS) using any POP3 client.
POP3 downloads only the content of your Inbox, not the content of any other folder.ĭownload your emails from Mailfence into your device(s) (using Mailfence POP3 server). This takes away the convenience of checking emails from multiple devices. If a user configured his POP3 client to delete messages from the server after download, then other devices will obviously not be able to fetch them any more. There is no sync between the devices themselves, which makes the task of processing messages more cumbersome. The manipulation of emails (deletion, folders, tags, …) performed on one client applies only to that client.
If several devices are fetching the same mailbox using POP3 (messages not being deleted after download), every device has its own copies of the messages (duplication). It helps users who prefer to store their emails on their local devices for privacy reasons instead of having them (emails) residing on a remote server. Users can enjoy the comfort of reading and organizing their emails offline. POP3 is most useful if you only check email from one device. For example, when sending an email from a computer, sent emails are only stored on the computer you are sending from, and cannot be viewed in the ‘Sent items’ folder of other devices. Notes: email sending is quite different from receiving email. Then, depending on the user specifications, the original mails are deleted from the server or not, so emails can either be moved or just copied. The POP3 client software connects to an email server and fetches all the new messages (the ones not already downloaed) present in the Inbox. That’s because POP3 downloads only the content of your Inbox, not that of other folders. POP3 offers a simple way for downloading your emails from the remote mailbox Inbox to your local mailbox.
In POP3, the mail server receives all the emails sent and stores them accordingly into your mailbox.