Tag: POP3

Finally, Google enabled an easy way to check for incoming POP3 email from within GMail. This is a very welcome addition. To enable it, go to the Labs tab under Settings (or click on the Labs icon if you enabled it), and turn on the option called "Refresh POP accounts". From that moment on, every time you hit "Refresh", GMail would check all of your incoming POP mailboxes for new messages. So ...

For a while now, new Gmail users have been able to import messages and contacts from email accounts on other services like Yahoo or Hotmail. If you had an older Gmail account, though, you were left out in the cold with no import tool. Now the Gmail team is solving that problem by making importing available to everyone. You can find the option to import in your Gmail settings, under "Accounts and ...

While a number of free webmail services including Gmail offers users POP3 or IMAP access for use with an external mail applications like Outlook or Thunderbird, Yahoo! considers this a premium feature and requires you to pony up $20 a year for POP3 access. Paying customers also get some other nifty features like an ad-free interface. But if you just want to use Outlook to send and receive email, ...

Have you got an iPhone and a Gmail account? If so, you're probably using IMAP, and you may not even realize it. What's IMAP? It's an email protocol that has been around for many years, but is not nearly as well known as its counterpart, POP. First, the definitions: POP, or POP3: Post Office Protocol 3, the most commonly used email protocol for retrieving remote email to a local client over a ...

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but among all the personalized home page services, I think this is a first: Netvibes has added a module for their home pages that will show you new messages from your IMAP and POP3 e-mail accounts. The module allows you to customize the number of e-mail headings to show as well as specify a URL to link to a webmail account if you have one. This in addition to ...