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<div align=justify>As you know cPanel control panel provided by MyIdealHost allows to create [http://myidealhost.com/hosting.shtml unlimited email accounts] for the domain names associated with your [http://myidealhost.com/hosting.shtml  web hosting account]. In order to be able to send or receive emails you need to access the created mailboxes somehow. It can be done over Webmail or POP3 using some local mail application like Outlook. In this article we'll try to explain the difference between the two.


'''''WebMail''''' stores the messages on the mail server. When you ask for the mail via your browser, then you are shown a list of headers including the sender, the subject, the date, and the size of every email. If you want to see a particular message, then the contents of the message are retrieved from the server and shown to you. If you delete the message, it gets removed from the server. If you simply view the message and simply close it, then it stays on the server and can be viewed again from any computer. This message stays on the server until you delete it yourself.


'''''POP3 mail''''' systems use the same mail server, but when you check the mail, the message is transferred from the server to your PC. When the transfer is completed, the messages are deleted from the server and stored only on the machine you moved them to when checking mail with the POP3 mail program.

The WebMail method of viewing your mail has several advantages, one of them being that messages are stored on a server and you'll be able to check them from any computer in future. This may be helpful in case you want to check mail from more than one location. </div>
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