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| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;" | '''POP3'''
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| Email kept on our server, same view of email and folders for all your email programs
| Email downloaded to your email client and not kept on our server. Webmail and other email programs won't see the same view
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| Message (and attachments) only downloaded when you display the email
| Message (and attachments) are downloaded whenever you check for new email
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| You can create extra folders that are also created on the server, and therefore seen across all your email programs
| Only a single inbox on the server, folders you create are only local to that specific email program.
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| Sent email can also be stored on the server, and therefore seen across all email programs
| Sent email only stored on the local computer
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| 1 Gigabyte of storage included as standard, further storage will have a small charge per Gigabyte (an advisory email will be sent when 1 Gigabyte is reached.)
| Email only stored on the local machine (unless the email program have a 'leave on server' option)
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