Gmail offers free POPs

Google on Wednesday threw another bone to customers of Gmail, its free Web-based e-mail service. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company now allows people to download e-mail from any third-party account or forward their Gmail for free, or what's called POP (Post Office Protocol) access. Using the feature, people can send Gmail e-mail to mobile devices, such as a Blackberry, or to Microsoft Outlook. The company, whose offer of 1 gigabyte of mail storage prompted rivals to follow suit with added storage, said it does not have any plans to charge for either feature.

Rivals including Yahoo and Microsoft charge for similar POP access. Yahoo Mail, for example, collects $19.95 for POP e-mail forwarding, among other premium features. It does not charge for POP downloading to Yahoo Mail.

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Can't wait 4 IMAP

I can't wait until they offically allow us to use IMAP with GMAIL.

Yahoo does charge for POP3 access

Since last month, Yahoo charges for POP3 access. This functionality is available only for Yahoo Mail Plus users.

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download other pop3 email to Yahoo

The author meant to say you can download e-mail from other pop3 accounts to your yahoo mail account.

I too understood it as you did the first time I read it. I checked myself and realized I read it incorrectly.

Gmail

Google is rolling the POP access in phases. If you haven't recieved that access as of yet keep ya panties on.

*puts panties back on

Gmail Storage

FYI.

Use your Gmail account as storage.

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