- - Post Office Protocol is an application-layer Internet standard - protocol used by local e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a - remote server over a TCP/IP connection. POP has been developed - through several versions, with version 3 (POP3) being the current - standard. Virtually all modern e-mail clients and servers - support POP3, and along with IMAP they are the two most prevalent - Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval. - This test suite can be used for robustness testing of POP3 Server - implementations. -
Used specifications
Specification
Title
Notes
RFC1939
Post Office Protocol - Version 3
Obsoletes RFC 1725, Updated by RFC 1957,RFC 2449,RFC 6186
RFC1734
POP3 AUTHentication command
RFC2449
POP3 Extension Mechanism
Updates RFC 1939, Updated by RFC 5034
RFC5034
The Post Office Protocol (POP3) Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) Authentication Mechanism
Obsoletes RFC 1734, Updates RFC 2449
RFC2595
Using TLS with IMAP, POP3 and ACAP
Updated by RFC 4616
RFC5721
POP3 Support for UTF-8
RFC6856
Post Office Protocol Version 3 (POP3) Support for UTF-8
Obsoletes RFC 5721
RFC1082
Post Office Protocol: Version 3: Extended service offerings