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November 12, 2004
Google GMail now allows POP3
Google's GMail just added 2 new features in their beta mail feature that includes POP3 support. Also available is email forwarding capability.
Downloading the mails only available on GMail website is now possible.
They have made some intelligent options available when you enabled pop support in GMail. You can chose to receive only the new mails to be available for pop download.
So if you already have 100s of Megs of mails stored in GMail, you can avoid downloading them at all! GMail have pop-enabling tutorials available for many popular mail clients on their website. I personally tried GMail POP on Opera’s excellent M2 Mail client and it worked flawlessly.
The other functionality is mail forwarding. Nothing special in this other than the fact that using GMail filters, only those mails that satisfy certain conditions could be set to be forwarded to another mail account.
Now the catch is, since GMail is still in beta stage and Google does not clarify anything about it… it is not sure if POP and mail forwarding would be available when it is publicly released. But if it is… it can be real bad news for many paid for mail services out there.
Another thing worth noticing is that GMail mails sent through POP did not include any footer or advertisements (in my tests)! Maybe Google would have some other plans for us in the future. On the other hand, maybe it is an indication that POP would not be free once the public release of GMail is out.
Source: Search Engine Journal
Posted by seomasters at November 12, 2004 01:58 PM | TrackBack