What is pop mail yahoo com

A blast from the past!

"Pop Mail" is an old term that refers to a way of retrieving email messages from a mail server using the Post Office Protocol (POP) protocol.

In the early days of the internet, email clients like Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, and Netscape Communicator used POP to connect to a mail server, such as Yahoo! Mail, to download email messages to the user's local computer. This was the primary way to access email online before web-based email services like Yahoo! Mail became popular.

Here's how it worked:

1. The user's email client (e.g., Outlook) would connect to the mail server (e.g., pop.mail.yahoo.com) using the POP protocol.
2. The mail server would authenticate the user's credentials (username and password).
3. The email client would then download the email messages from the mail server to the user's local computer.
4. The email client would then display the downloaded email messages to the user.

The "pop" in "pop mail" refers to the fact that the email client was "popping" the email messages off the mail server, essentially downloading them to the user's local computer.

With the rise of web-based email services like Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, and Hotmail, the need for POP mail has decreased, and many email clients now use more modern protocols like IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) or web-based interfaces to access email online.