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POP, or Post Office Protocol, lets you download messages from Gmail's servers onto your computer so you can access your mail with a program like Microsoft Outlook Express or Netscape Mail, even when you aren’t connected to the Internet. * Over the next several weeks, we are introducing POP access to all of our users. To make sure the feature is fully stable, we're giving users access to POP in phases. Once POP access is available to you, a 'New Features!' link appears at the top of your account, along with a 'Forwarding and POP' tab on your 'Settings' page.

So umm- how exactly do they advertise using this service?

How long until they add a calendar and notes section?

Many people, when you say "email" they think "hotmail". I've heard some even refering to "email" as "hotmail".

It is interesting from the standpoint of them not running ads on the downloaded messages. It seems like a bit of a shift. Of course, so few people will be using the POP3 feature that it probably won't put much of a dent in the ad revenue. Still it's interesting.

We will continue to create our mail on OE and then receive it through Gmail. This will also allow us to store back-ups in Gmail. We will then be able to check all the SPAM a couple of times a day without having to download it.

I'll take this as one less (minor) gripe about GMail. Now I'm off to see if I'm one of the lucky ones who has it early.

I'd have to agree with that, I get quite a lot more and the only issue I have with gmail is that I can't bulk delete the spam, recently I got up to 1023 MB (102%) of the 1000 MB, it took a hell of a long time to delete the spam.

We can't bulk delete it even if it was available. Every now and then a genuine e-mail slips through. Having to check them 50 at a time is no big deal especially with the snippet of text they give you to review them. Takes about 10% of the time it used to.

The strange thing is POP access is something I wouldn't use- it kind of negates the point of Gmail :P But I'm sure some people will find it useful.

Um, not that I can see.
It's only available under the premium paid service
or if you sign up for their "Yahoo Delivers" spam service.
You are saying you have free pop3 under regular yahoo without a 3rd party utility?

Just yer basic free yahoo mail account.

Sure, I get spam. But oddly, almost none of it is sent to my Yahoo account. Most comes from other accounts that I have set to forward to Yahoo.

Just wanted to stop in--I talked to a Gmail person, and they said that they have no plans to charge for POP3 access. They're not promising that they'll won't have to charge sometime in the future, but I got the distinct sense that they'd like to keep POP3 access free, which seems pretty cool.

Thanks.

Seems like this would be something that would make sense to add. They could show ads while I read my POP mail, and maybe more people would use GMail if it could check all of their mail accounts.

I have ten other email accounts, and I suppose with Gmail features, all of them coming into the Gmail inbox would be great.

[edited by: engine at 5:16 pm (utc) on Nov. 17, 2004]
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We now have an alternate out-going mail service when the other is having problems. The real benefit for us will be the SPAM & virus mail. It will save us a LOT of time.

it has a feature to keep emails in your inbox even after poping.