Gmail supports POP3 Now
 

Today, the Gmail Team is happy to announce free POP access for Gmail users.
POP access has been a much requested Gmail feature and we're pleased to announce that we're now making it available to all users over the next couple of weeks.

With POP access, Gmail users can download a copy of their messages using any email program (such as Microsoft Outlook), or any device (e.g. Blackberry, mobile phones) that supports POP. And of course with POP access on Gmail, users can access their messages offline.

For instance, a user working from her home office who prefers to retrieve email via Microsoft Outlook can easily do so by configuring her Outlook client and enabling POP access on Gmail. Gmail messages received via POP will not display advertisements and Gmail will leave messages on the server by default, so users can still access their messages via the Gmail web interface.

Both POP access and automatic forwarding (which enables users to send incoming messages to the email account of their choice) will be provided to Gmail users for free, and we have no plans to charge for either feature.
Both enable users to choose which email interface is best for them, without having to worry about losing access to their messages. Think of it as "email portability."

i was thinking that about whether they wre gonna do that or not. pretty happy now that i know they did ;)

screw pop access. I want IMAP!

WOOT!!

whats imap?

it's another protocol to retrieve mail. but it's much more advanced then Pop3.

but okok now. Where are the details?

ah i see

yeah whats the pop server address?
i tried pop.gmail.com
didnt work

did you try gmail.com? 8)

no workie

the smtp is gsmtp171.google.com

dunno if that helps...

and you couldent find out what the pop address is?

i googled it and found a bunch of junk.. dunno :confused:

http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.p...0;fp;16;fpid;0

heres a little more info

as said in article, it will be done over the week
not done now

IMAP might be implemented in the future too

kool. thx for the article ET

np :D

to think that hotmail is planning to quit support for outlook express....

they better think twice now that Gmail is basically ramming MS into a wall


so google will win the webmail war against MS (basically almost anyone kicks hotmail's ass before it took some steroids lol)

and mozilla is kicking MS's ass with firefox and pretty soon, thunderbird

DIE MS DIE!

go go ubuntu linux!
go go SUSE 9.1!!

GO MACGYVER!
lol :banghead:

Ok. It's all ready. Go into "New Features" in Gmail at the top of the screen and look at how to enable pop in your settings.

Then set it up. And you have to do more then regular pop too. It uses SSL pop access, and you have to configure your smtp for a different port and use TLS and your login stuff.

But that's what makes it so cool and secure

IMAP keeps all messages on the server so you can access your mailserver form multiple computers.

POP3 Downloads them and deletes them from the server

hehe gg on double post ;)

but you can tell the client to keep a copy on the server can't you?

later

pop3 saves space and is more secure, in that someone can't go back and read your mail...

thanks woodward ;)

*doesnt use gmail and probably never will*

yea no kidding... I only have it just to say that I have it :lol: