Google Starts Offering POP Access

[Shinigami]

In what it is billing as "e-mail portability," Google Inc. is opening access to its Gmail e-mail service from desktop clients and mobile devices. On Wednesday, the company began providing free POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) access on Gmail accounts. The rollout is expected to reach all users over the next two weeks, said George Harik, director of Googlettes, the name of the Google group overseeing its startup services.

"This [access] is an important part of e-mail because of all the things not enabled by Web-based e-mail," Harik said. POP3 access, for example, allows users to read Gmail messages while they are offline and on mobile devices that support the standard, Harik said. POP3 is a standard protocol for receiving e-mail and communicating between an e-mail server and client. Most major e-mail clients, such as Microsoft Outlook, support the standard, as do competing Web-based e-mail services such as Yahoo Inc.'s mail.
Source: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1723553,00.asp

Before anyone asks, this is how you enable your account for POP access (http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13273&topic=-1). Don't worry if you don't see this configuration in your Settings page, though. Google's working on implimenting it, so a lot of accounts--maybe even most--don't have POP access yet. They said all accounts should have complete access in the next few weeks.

[Basan]

Btw, where can I get an account in Google?
Just happens that it's my default homepage... ;)

Add: Opps... After readin' I saw that it's only in invitation that u'd get an account. :cry:

[Neo]

There a few people here who have GMail invites, just wait until someone has a few left over.

I have gmail as well, but I dont use it... I have Kupatrix.com for my emails :)

More for the novelty >_>

-Neo

[TimP]

Someone on Slashdot said:
"A Google app can be perfectly stable, and still be in beta, because "beta" for Google means looking for a way to make money off of it."

This may be Google's way to make money off of it in the near future. What incentive does Google have to allow free POP3 access? People can circumvent their ads completely.

[Basan]

This may be Google's way to make money off of it in the near future. What incentive does Google have to allow free POP3 access? People can circumvent their ads completely.

Does Yahoo! pop server ring a bell? I circumvent it (adds) as well and have no major deal with it... and it's free as well. ;)
Not lately due 2 a software prob (http://www.warboards.org/showthread.php?t=6526)... :cry: *After shameless plug merely goes away 2 hide himself*

[Markpyro]

I am willing to give out 3 of my invites, email me at markpyro@gmail.com with your email and I'll send you one.

[Graeme]

Hmmm, sorry to stray off topic a bit, but is GMail able to do the opposite?

That is, would I be able to set up POP3 from my hotmail to my GMail acct so I never have to bother with hotmail again? Or is that just ridiculous and insane crazy talk?

[Basan]

It may be possible... provided that Hotmail lets u relay ur mail in2 another account. But it's my belief that u'll have 2 do it online when u logged there. ;)

[Geno]

6 Gmail invites here. -Sigh- Are we going to do this 'Post your invites' thing again...?

~Larry "Geno" Meyers

P.S. Anyone need one? Mail me at Geno1986@gmail.com and send me your first and last name. I'll get one to you then :)

[BSTRhino]

I think Gmail were also offering account redirection too. Which brings up the same issues, how are they meant to make money off that?

[Neo]

Does google seriously need to make anymore money?

Most likely it will go the way of Yahoo's POP access, free at first, but eventually only for paying users.

Remember that currently, GMail is still 'beta' or whatever, not open to the public. Even though a ton of people already have accounts... or something. Lmao.

-Neo

[TimP]

Google is a company, not a charity, and a public company now, too. The shareholders will want profits, not acts of kindness.

[RoP]

Does google seriously need to make anymore money?

Most likely it will go the way of Yahoo's POP access, free at first, but eventually only for paying users.

Remember that currently, GMail is still 'beta' or whatever, not open to the public. Even though a ton of people already have accounts... or something. Lmao.

-Neo

Of course it needs to make money. The money they have now is limited... they need to keep proving to shareholders that they can make profits. That way, people will give them more money to invest in new technology and ideas. Without that, google is nothing.

[Neo]

I was being sarcastic. Had you read my post you would see that I meantioned later on that they will offer pop3 access at first like Yahoo! did, but then make you pay for it later.

-Neo

[Whiteknight]

Yes, finally! When I'm feeling un-lazy, I might go and enable some stuff. For now, methinks I'll just keep checking the site, easy enough.

[Shinigami]

Wewt! It's enabled for me, now. Personally, I much prefer using Mail, since I can check all my accounts in one place, not to mention I just like it better than what Gmail has up (though it's definitely unique and pretty cool, itself).

Just a note, though: I'm not sure how it goes with the other mail apps, but I found following the pictures and not the written instructions much easier. I think I misconfigured it the first time around because the instructions made it appear (or said, I forget) to add the "@gmail.com" bit when it wasn't included in the picture.

[Basan]

Wth happens when u cannot log-in? It happened 2 me and since then I couldn't log in ever since... either on FF or IE. And it says that I didn't provided an alternative e-mail account as well in that page.
I sure can't understand any of it. :cry:

Edit add (way later): Problem solved. It was a simple mix up in my accounts name. I used an _ (underscore) instead of a dot (.). :rolleyes: *Sigh*

[Basan]

Just wanted to know as well the POP server name to plug it in with my ThunderBird (http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/). If that's even possible currently.

Anyone could PM me the details, if it's too sensitive intel to share around here? Hackers are the one's I'm refering to. ;)

Edit: Nevermind. I found out for myself after a more carefull look inside the mail. But it's fot the v0.* and not 1.0, that I currently use. Will it be any probs.? :confused:

Edit #2: Yup, there was. I can't access my e-mail there through ThunderBird. :concern:
Recall that I followed the instructions presented in the site.

[Basan]

Well, I can send e-mails with ThunderBird thought my G-Mail account's (SMTP) server. But I can't see my e-mails with it. What gives!?! :mad:
Can anyone help me out?