Let's take a look at the process of receiving email with email software. Generally, we set the URL of a POP server (such as pop. 163.com), and the account number and password of the email address are in the account attribute of the email software. This is used in the process of receiving letters. When we press the receive button in the email software, the email software will first call the DNS protocol to analyze the IP address of the POP server. When the IP address is resolved, the e-mail program will start to connect to the port 1 10 of the e-mail server using TCP protocol. Because the POP server is busy, we have to wait a long time in this process. When the mail program successfully connects to the POP server, it will first use the USER command to transfer the account of the mailbox to the POP server, and then use the PASS command to transfer the account of the mailbox to the server. When this authentication process is completed, the mail program uses the STAT command to request the server to return mailbox statistics, such as the total number of messages and the size of messages, and then the list will list the number of messages in the server. Then the mail program will use the RETR command to receive the mail, and after receiving a mail, it will use the DELE command to set the mail in the mail server to the deleted state. When QUIT is used, the mail server will delete messages marked for deletion. Generally speaking, receiving mail from a server by a mail program is actually a dialogue process, and POP protocol is a language for e-mail.
POP3 (post office protocol 3) is the third edition of post office protocol, which stipulates how to connect personal computers to mail servers on the Internet and the electronic protocol for downloading e-mail. It is the first offline protocol standard for Internet e-mail. POP3 allows users to store the e-mail from the server to the local host (that is, their own computer) and delete the e-mail saved on the e-mail server, while the POP3 server is a receiving e-mail server following the POP3 protocol for receiving e-mail.
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You can send and receive messages using a client or device that supports POP, such as Microsoft Outlook or Foxmail.
Please configure your email client to download 126 free email. To learn how to configure, click your email client name:
Outlook Express settings
Foxmail settings
Microsoft Office Outlook settings
Netscape settings
Outlook Express settings
Take the Chinese version of Outlook Express 6 as an example, please follow the following steps to manually configure your client:
1. After opening Outlook Express, click the Tools menu in the window and select an account;
2. Click the "Mail" tab, click the "Add" button on the right, and select "Mail" in the pop-up menu;
3. In the pop-up dialog box, enter your "display name" according to the prompt, and then click "Next";
4. Enter your email address, and then click Next.
5. Enter the POP and SMTP server addresses of your mailbox:
pop: pop. 126.com
smtp: smtp. 126.com
Then click "Next";
6. Enter your account number and password (this account number is used when logging in to this email address, just enter the part before @), and then click "Next";
7. Click the Finish button to save your settings;
8. Set SMTP server authentication: in the "Mail" tab, double-click the account just added to pop up the account property box;
9. Click the Server tab, and then in the outgoing mail server, select the option "My server needs authentication", click the Settings tab on the right, and select "Use the same settings as the incoming mail server".
10. Click "OK" and then "Close" the account box.
Now that you have set it up successfully, click the "Send and Receive" button in the main window to send and receive emails.
Foxmail settings
Take the Chinese version of Foxmail 5.0 as an example:
1. After opening foxmail, click the "Account" menu in the window and select "New";
2. Select Next in the pop-up menu;
3. Then according to the prompt, enter the "user name" of the account managed in foxmail, such as "Netease 126 Free Mail", and then click "Next";
4. Enter the "sender's name" and your "email address", and then click "Next";
5. Enter the addresses of the POP server and SMTP server of your mailbox:
pop: pop. 126.com
smtp: smtp. 126.com
And "pop account name" and "password", and then click "Next";
6. Set SMTP server authentication: select the option "SMTP server needs authentication" (it must be selected here, otherwise the mail will not succeed); Click the Finish button to save your settings.
You have set it up, and now you can send and receive free mail in the main window 126.
Microsoft Office Outlook settings
Take Microsoft Office OutLook 2003 Chinese version as an example;
1. After opening Office OE 2003, click the Tools menu in the window and select an email account;
2. Select "Add a new email account" in the dialog box, and then click Next;
3. Select the server type as POP, and click Next to confirm;
4. Make the following settings in the account settings dialog box:
Your name: account ID. You can set up multiple accounts on Office OE 2003 to distinguish them.
E-mail: for example, you @126.com.
User name: the corresponding email user name, such as you.
Password: the password for logging into the mailbox.
Receiving mail server: pop.126.com.
Outgoing mail server: SMTP.126.com.
Remember password: Select this option to send and receive e-mails locally, without manually entering a password for account verification.
5. After setting the account properties, click the Other Settings button to proceed to the next operation;
6. Click the sending server binder, select "My sending server (SMTP) needs authentication" and press "OK";
7. Then test the validity of the account;
8. You can check whether the account settings are normal according to the prompts in the window, and click the "Close" button to exit the test;
9. Click "Finish" to complete the whole process of establishing and setting up a new account.
Netscape settings
Take the Chinese version of Netscap 7.0 as an example:
1, start Netscape 7.0 mail &; Newsgroup software:
Click the "Edit" option in the main menu;
After selecting "mail and newsgroup account settings", the settings window will pop up.
2. Click the "Add Account" button at the bottom left of the newly opened attribute setting window;
Select E-mail Account and click Next;
Please fill in the name you want to appear in the "From" column in "Your Name";
Please fill in your email address in "Email", for example: you @126.com.
Click "Next" after confirming the input.
3. Please select the receiving server type "POP";
Receiving server: pop.126.com; ;
Sending server: SMTP.126.com; ;
4. After confirming the input, click Next.
Please fill in your email address 126 user name at the user name. If you @ 126.com, please fill in your; After confirming your input, click Next.
6. Please fill in the account identification name at the account name. The name you fill in is only used as a logo in Nescape Mail, for example: Netease 126 Free Mail; After confirming your input, click Next.
7. Please verify the information you just set in the new window, and click the "Finish" button after confirmation.
8. Return to the "Mail and Newsgroup Account Settings" window, select the "SMTP" option in the upper left corner, and fill in and check the following information:
Please fill in "server name": SMTP.126.com; ;
Please verify that the port number is "25" in "Port";
Please check the "Use User Name and Password" option;
Please fill in your email account number in "User Name", for example: you@ 126.com, you;
Please select "Use when available" in "Use Secure Connection (SSL)";
Please click "OK" after confirming your input.
Congratulations! Now that the setup has been completed, you can start to try to send and receive 126 mail with Netscap software. ^_^ 。