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LennonCook · 11-30-2004, 04:14 AM

No ads, no. I'm guessing they'll make enough money from the people who prefer webmail, and from the ads they have all over the internet... or, they may decide to charge for the POP access (although there are apparently "No plans to do so", and doing so would seem to go against Google's reasons for providing it).

EDIT: Anyway, to enable POP access (if you have it - they're rolling it out gradually to all accounts). Go into your GMail Settings, and look in Forwarding and POP. The options are self explanatory. Ignore their instructions on setting up your mail client: they're good, for most clients, but very verbose. To put it very simply:
Your incoming server is pop.gmail.com , port 995, using SSL.
Your outgoing server is smtp.gmail.com , port 587, using TLS.

[ 11-30-2004, 04:21 AM: Message edited by: LennonCook ]

11-30-2004, 04:14 AM	#15
LennonCook Jack Burton Join Date: November 10, 2001 Location: Bathurst & Orange, in constant flux Age: 37 Posts: 5,452	No ads, no. I'm guessing they'll make enough money from the people who prefer webmail, and from the ads they have all over the internet... or, they may decide to charge for the POP access (although there are apparently "No plans to do so", and doing so would seem to go against Google's reasons for providing it). EDIT: Anyway, to enable POP access (if you have it - they're rolling it out gradually to all accounts). Go into your GMail Settings, and look in Forwarding and POP. The options are self explanatory. Ignore their instructions on setting up your mail client: they're good, for most clients, but very verbose. To put it very simply: Your incoming server is pop.gmail.com , port 995, using SSL. Your outgoing server is smtp.gmail.com , port 587, using TLS. [ 11-30-2004, 04:21 AM: Message edited by: LennonCook ]