With E-mail Services, you can install components on your computer to configure it as a mail server. E-mail Services includes the Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) service and the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service, which retrieve and transfer e-mail, respectively. To provide e-mail services to users, such as sending and receiving e-mail, administrators can create mailboxes on the server.

This section covers:

• Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service
  
  
• POP3 Service