Gmail To Offer POP3 Access

Oh Yeah... POP3 will be a cool feature.

 

I hope they don't charge a fee for this option!

 

much cooler from what I understand.

Any chance they will add this as well?

Thomas.

 

Google's style is not to charge for things like that but with POP access I am guessing that would lose out in some advertising $$. So I hope you are right and they do not charge for it.

 

I think they can put the ads into the POP mail too. But, then that will not be a pure text ad. I think that if they charge a bit; though against their style; it will be fine - something like $10 per year. That is the money I pay for a 2GB POP access, cell phone alerts / access email id.
Ajeet

 

Cool. I was wondering if they'd offer it or not.

 

Well if they do decide to charge for pop3 access I hope they offer a wide range of payment methods including Paypal.

 

I wouldnt pay even if they accepted payments at 7/11.

 

The only way for them to put ads in *all* of the POP mail would be to convert all the emails to html. The majority of their users would not like this and I personally can not see them doing this. HTML email is still considered evil by most people (Although the marketing department where I work doesn't think so). Whether they will charge or not... Who knows?

 

Is there any chance that they could incorporate the Gmail interface into a HTML email?

 

I remembered they mentioned this at the beginning. Just no one cared about it.

 

I wouldn't either too much.

Would giving POP access kind of defeat the purpose of 1GB of online email storage? Who wants that on their PC anyway?

 

Good point, although you could of course delete copies of larger files from your hard drive and still leave them on the GMail server... many POP3 setups already allow this option.

 

True.

It would probably be better for everyone if they did anyway. That wat they're catering to all.

I for instance don't get a great deal of email and already have about 6 accounts that i've accumulated since i got on the net. Plus i got Gmail now. I would use POP access as i dont think ill ever more than a few MB of mail. On the other hand im sure that many of you guys would spend a great deal of time using email and WOULD utilise the 1GB alot more.

 

But the webmail is so perfect.

Isn't everybody always online?
With the Gmail notifier (systray in windows, OR status bar in firefox) you always know when there is mail waiting for you, plus you don't have to have some stupid bloated email program.

Webmail is all I need for Gmail.

 

Hmmm... there are email programs that aren't bloated -- if you're referring to Outlook, I'd agree that that is overkill for most people but you can switch to Outlook Express or other programs and get function without frills.

As for GMail, I don't have much interest in POP3 access eithr because I don't use the account that way -- I use it for storing large articles (emailed webpages I want to save for later reading) or archiving certain emails. Using it this way, I don't need frequent access because that account doesn't get new email frequently, so, like you, I'm happy with web-based GMail and the notifier.

For regular email, webmail is way too slow... but I have other accounts for that purpose.

 

Yeah the webmail does look quite good.

Beleive it or not im still on dial-up.

 

Is the notifier something like MSN messenger?

Since you guys use it, whats it like?

I've never heard of it as I only opened up a Gmail account a couple of days ago.

 

Believe it or not, so am I -- only choice out where I live...

I suppose so... I don't use Messenger but my son does and it pops up a little notice when email arrives in his Hotmail account. The GMail notifier sits in your system tray and pops up a little transparent auto-disappearing window when new mail arrives, with some brief information about the sender and subject. Seems to work pretty well on my system.