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https://www.economysizegeek.com/wp-mail/faq/
If you get POP3: premature NOOP OK, NOT an RFC 1939 Compliant server
edit wp-includes/class-pop3.php
Ignore the numbers at the begining of the line they are there for reference
goto line 107
107 $this->BANNER = $this->parse_banner($reply);
108 $this->RFC1939 = $this->noop();
Insert
107 $this->BANNER = $this->parse_banner($reply);
108 return();
108 $this->RFC1939 = $this->noop();