We had some reports coming in about some outages of the gmail – that is google mail – web interface which meant that some users could not access their mail accounts for several hours which seems to be a big problem for at least some of those users. In the time where customers for instance demand a fast, almost immediate, reaction to their emails it could become a matter of survival to receive and react to the mail.
I discovered the suggestion to retrieve the email by pop3 at the digital inspiration blog. Amit discovered that he was able to retrieve mails from his gmail account even though the web interface was down. This is a pretty neat trick which can be used, or at least tried, if you cannot connect to the gmail web interface.
To enable POP in your Gmail account:
- Log in to your Gmail account.
- Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page.
- Click Forwarding and POP in the orange Mail Settings box.
- Select Enable POP for all mail or Enable POP for mail that arrives from now on.
- Choose the action you’d like your Gmail messages to take after they are accessed with POP.
- Configure your POP client* and click Save Changes. (pop.gmail.com, smtp.gmail.com)
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POP3 access is the main reason i chose GMail. i sync my GMail accounts with Thunderbird all the time. i prefer it to using the web interface, which can only access on account at a time per browser, and more importantly, leaves me logged in, meaning Google see what i search for, not just as an IP address, but as an actual GMail user. Not cool.
On a related note, you can also access your Yahoo! and Hotmail accounts in Thunderbird using extensions available on the Thunderbird extension site.
Wat bullcrap!!
Is this the latest ‘HACK’ that you have come up with Martin? Enable POP3 access to GMAIL?
AFAIK, thats the way to access any mail a/c without its user interface. (may or maynot be free).
Comeon man, start coming up with something better. You can do it!
Thats great guys…but how about getting through to the login screen. Gmail server down screen gives no login access.
gmail server is down
for long hours… kindly help me out on this