Difference between mail. and pop. & smtp.?
- by Lea Hayes
When hosting a website I often notice that all of the following are defined under DNS:
POP = mail.example.com
SMTP = mail.example.com
versus
POP = pop.example.com
SMTP = smtp.example.com
Is it wise to use "mail.example.com" for both POP and SMTP when configuring a mail client?
What is the difference between each of the two approaches?
It seems to work fine (sends and receives mail as expected).