There have been two drastic changes to Google’s Gmail service in the last week. The first will probably make most users happy, gmail is now available to everyone. That is right, no more begging for invites, just visit the gmail site and signup for an account if you need one.
The second change might be interesting to users that have to work on different computers. Gmail now offers the option to access mail accounts that support the pop3 protocol from within gmail making it easy to use gmail as the central platform for all your incoming and outgoing emails. This new feature does not seem to be available to anyone yet, just check your settings in the gmail account and click on accounts.
If the option Get mail from other accounts: is visible you can add other accounts to your gmail account. I’m however not really convinced to use gmail for my mail consolidation and administration. I have the same objections when it comes to online storage devices.
I do not trust companies enough to have important mails or files stored online on a server. There is always the possibility of misuse and I don’t want to take any risks. Maybe I’m a little paranoid about this whole thing.
Still, I will continue to download my mails from gmail using Thunderbird and I’m happy with the solution. Mainly because I only work on one computer. I can see the advantages if you work on more than one in different locations.
Update: Four years later and Gmail is still offering to retrieve mail from other providers. Providers like Hotmail have in the meantime started to offer similar options so that their users can also retrieve emails via Pop3 from other mail providers. This is handy for users who only use a website to do email.
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typo: … gmail is not available to everyone.
you mean “gmail is now available to everyone.”
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Great and very useful post! Cheers!
That’s a cool new feature.. maybe I’ll use that to retrieve my mails from Yahoo
Somehow this is not working for me. I keep getting the message “Server denied POP3 access for the given username and password.”
HAI, HOW ARE YOU, WHAT’S UP.
does any one want to join my peeps
hey people! would really enjoy it if i get some people to reply or talk to me.would really mean a lot….
My x as chang my password
i love my son abd wife