Gmail Adds POP3 To Email Accounts

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.

Comments

Google Spam?

[joel8x]

So how are they going to make money? Are they going to start advertising to POP users via email? If not, than this is great news.

Re:Google Spam?

[jxyama]

> If not, than this is great news.

in what sense is this "great"? from the usability standpoint? i don't think gmail ads are all that intrusive.

gmail isn't "free." i mean the service must be worth something to google's operation, otherwise, what is the point? you may hate evil corporations but i am not sure about blindly labeling anything and everything that grants more "freebies" to average joes as "great."

if google decides that there's no viable way to maintain gmail's value from providing "freebies" and decides to discontinue gmail, then i'd think that's not so "great." i'd rather have "gmail with ads" than "no gmail with no ads." isn't it rather hypocritical to think "getting something for nothing" attitude is ok but companies trying to make money as not ok? aren't they both about the greed?

Re:I am a bit reluctant.

[EvilNTUser]

"geek street cred"

Gmail lost that the day it became "in".

Re:The catch is..

[freqres]

snake... snake... oooohhhh it's a snake.

Re:The catch is..

[drinkypoo]

gmail's advertisements take up little space and don't flash. they are about as inoffensive as advertisements can possibly be and still advertise. They are nowhere near as annoying as ipod pyramid schemes.