POP3 accounts are one of the ways you can access your email in your mail boxes hosted on our servers. All modern email clients such as Outlook and Thunderbird support the POP3 protocol. POP3 allows you to download your email messages to your computer which then you should no longer need access to the internet to read your email. Majority of email clients also give you the ability to leave the email on the server so that others or you could get the email again at a later time if you lose it. However by default most email clients delete email once it’s been downloaded so be aware of this if you’d like us to still store your emails on our servers.