Gmail supports POP3 and IMAP now. So you can use (email client of
choice). You lose out on some of the nifty web-based features, like
the awesome management of email threads, but the choice is yours.
How to set up POP3:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13273
How to set up IMAP:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75725
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Bear <bear.prower_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> Gmail supports both IMAP and POP3 access without extra cost or
> software. I use Outlook to send and receive email via gmail.
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> From: SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com [mailto:SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of David Westinghouse
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:27
> To: SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [SkunkworksAMA] Anything new lately?
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>> Protip: switch to gmail. The interface there makes it very easy to
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> Nope, tried Gmail, it is web only. POP3 access is only through email2POP,
> and that costs $30 annually. eMail2POP reformats all mail to HTML, and I
> prefer messages to be left alone.
>
> Unsubscribing from lists defeats the purpose of this one mailbox, it is
> intended to collect a lot of e-mails. It took me a while to find it, but
> Becky! does a very good job. Now if only it would save file attachments
> as they are, not just .b64 files...
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> I was asking if there was anything new since then.
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Received on Wed Jan 07 2009 - 10:42:50 CST