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Gmail Adds POP3 To Email Accounts

Posted by timothy on from the rock dept.

VaultX writes "Gmail has recently added POP3 services to their free email accounts. This would allow someone to use gmail without ever seeing any of their advertisements. They are also providing SMTP, both POP3 and SMTP are forcing the use of SSL/TLS. Very interesting...now where's IMAP and what's the catch?" It's being phased in, though, so not every gmail account yet has POP access.

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  1. Re:The catch is.. by orion024 · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the gMail FAQ

    "Access: Free automatic forwarding. POP3 access is not yet available, but will be in the future for free or at a nominal fee."

    In other words, once they go live I would expect pop3 access to either be a paid service, or have injected google text ads.

  2. IMAP and Gmail by echocharlie · · Score: 5, Informative

    From http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answ er=10339
    Q: Does G-mail support IMAP?
    Gmail doesn't currently support IMAP access. As part of our ongoing commitment to give our users easy access to their email, we have introduced POP access. We look forward to announcing more features as they become available.

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  3. Re:I am a bit reluctant. by bsdfish · · Score: 5, Informative

    I believe they've always stated somewhere in their documentation (FAQ, I think) that they were planning to add POP access, for which they may charge at some point in the future. I haven't seen any promises of POP being always free.

  4. Unfortunately SMTP server rewrites From line by btempleton · · Score: 5, Informative

    I tried the SMTP server, since it would be very handy to have a free SMTP relay out there that uses userid/password for SMTP AUTH. Saves the trouble of the complex setup required in many mail agents to get this going at home.

    It works, but it rewrites your From: line to be user@gmail.com, which is OK if you are using gmail as your home base, but not OK if it is just one of your mailboxes. However, it's their server so they are free to put this limitation on it, I guess.

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  5. Re:The catch is.. by JPDeckers · · Score: 5, Informative

    Can confirm this one.

    Sent and received messages, and no ads where added.

    Furthermore, when you enable pop3, you have 3 options:
    * Enable POP for all mail
    * Enable POP only for mail that arrives from now
    * Disable Pop3 (Doh)

    You can also choose to
    * Keep GMail's copy in inbox
    * Archive GMail's copy
    * Trash GMail's copy

    Sending and receiving is done through SSL-ports, and sending requires authentication.