Gmail Includes POP3

19 Jan, 2005 at 2:38pm ET Article published in Tech

It has been reported that Google’s Gmail service can now be accessed using your e-mail client of choice, via POP3.

More Info

To configure your account for POP3 use:

Log in, go to settings, and then “POP3 and Forwarding” for instructions.

Submitted by: shwaip

Source: Gmail

Comments

19 Jan 2005 ~ 3:23pm KingFish This may be compelling enough for me to give it a try now. Hopefully others will also follow too. Are you listening excite?
19 Jan 2005 ~ 4:02pm croc_ I have been using this for a long time now, didn't they start this a few months ago?
19 Jan 2005 ~ 4:20pm Thrax Yeah. I set mine up for pop3 before Christmas.
19 Jan 2005 ~ 4:32pm entropy Me too. For some reason, though, it doesn't download my folders properly. Like my spam, inbox, and other folders are all mixed to one. Maybe I missed something, maybe it's a limitation of POP3, but does anyone have any ideas?
19 Jan 2005 ~ 4:34pm croc_ Just FYI Thrax, if you didn't know already- your Domokun still has his santa hat on.
19 Jan 2005 ~ 4:35pm croc_

entropy wrote:

Me too. For some reason, though, it doesn't download my folders properly. Like my spam, inbox, and other folders are all mixed to one. Maybe I missed something, maybe it's a limitation of POP3, but does anyone have any ideas?

Mine doesn't dl the spam folder at all. Check your POP settings on the gmail site.
19 Jan 2005 ~ 5:00pm Medlock

croc_ wrote:

Just FYI Thrax, if you didn't know already- your Domokun still has his santa hat on.

So does my smiley. I seem to have lost the original...

Anyway... I've been using POP3 for a long time now. I think it was available in like November, maybe earlier.
19 Jan 2005 ~ 7:35pm Thrax

croc_ wrote:

Just FYI Thrax, if you didn't know already- your Domokun still has his santa hat on.

Yeah, I haven't looked at it at all in the 25 days since Christmas.
19 Jan 2005 ~ 11:22pm TheSmJ This news has been posted before by Prime back when they first announced this. I'm much tooo lazy to dig up the thread link though.

Call me when I can access my other POP3 accounts via my Google account (like Yahoo mail allows).
20 Jan 2005 ~ 5:03am tycho I don't think that it auto-downloads the spam folder because they assumed most people don't want the spam emails.

I have been using outlook to check my gmail but for whatever reason I have been unable to get it to send emails at all. I've followed gmail's set up tutorials but it always fails whenever I try to send an email through outlook. Anyone else have this issue / know of a fix? I am able to send emails no problem through an IMAP account I also have and I was having no issues using a gmail-pop go between program before they added the pop features directly into gmail.

(Windows XP / Office XP / EZ Armor Firewall)