[Reader-list] POP on Gmail

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Gmail offers free POPs
Published: November 10, 2004, 11:13 AM PST
By Stefanie Olsen
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Google on Wednesday threw another bone to customers of Gmail, its free
Web-based e-mail service. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company now
allows people to download e-mail from any third-party account or forward
their Gmail for free, or what's called POP (Post Office Protocol)
access. Using the feature, people can send Gmail e-mail to mobile
devices, such as a Blackberry, or to Microsoft Outlook. The company,
whose offer of 1 gigabyte of mail storage prompted rivals to follow suit
with added storage, said it does not have any plans to charge for either
feature.

Rivals including Yahoo and Microsoft charge for similar POP access.
Yahoo Mail, for example, collects $19.95 for POP e-mail forwarding,
among other premium features. It does not charge for POP downloading to
Yahoo Mail.