Google To Go Pop3, Legally! :)

[RavenKittie]

oogle will gradually roll out POP3 (Post Office Protocol) support over the coming weeks to users of its Gmail service, allowing them to use the feature to download e-mail messages from Gmail servers to e-mail applications on devices such as PCs and wireless handhelds.
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With POP3 support, a user will be able to transfer server-based Gmail messages to a client-side e-mail application such as Microsoft's Outlook and have the messages stored on a local hard drive, where they will be accessible when the user is offline. Users with wireless devices that have POP3-compliant e-mail clients will be able to download their Gmail messages to personal digital assistants or cell phones, too.

Google is working on adding an antivirus-scanning feature to the Web mail service--possibly by licensing an existing technology--and on developing an HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) interface to make Gmail compatible with browsers that don't support JavaScript. Currently, only JavaScript-enabled browsers can access Gmail, which uses JavaScript extensively


Taken from Read full article here from pcworld.com (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118567,tk,dn111104X,00.asp)

Go go POP3 that's all I have to say :)

[coogle]

Sweeet... goodbye hotmail.

[AlCaTrAzz]

also in related google news... alot of ppl have been talking lately that google is trying to kill microsofts web products... i'm gonna take a punt and say that the google messenger will be here in under a year

[James]

Originally posted by AlCaTrAzz@Nov 15 2004, 01:29 PM
also in related google news...* alot of ppl have been talking lately that google is trying to kill microsofts web products... i'm gonna take a punt and say that the google messenger will be here in under a year
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yeah but it wont take off, the userbase for msn is too large for it to migrate... whereas with an email address it doesnt matter at all....


although, ICQ was frickin huge, and still kind of is, but has lost millions to msn users, who dont use icq at all anymore...


I've still got my icq number, still know it off the top of my head, but havent logged in to icq in about six months or so

[Sevendust]

Can't wait to use Thunderbird in combo with Gmail, it'll be huge.


Regarding the Messenger, it'll be about as hard as emigrating users from IE to Firefox. As long as MS ships messenger with Windows, people are too damned lazy to look what the hell's out there. So while I'd be using it, not many othes will be.

[AlCaTrAzz]

but if they could integrate google messenger like trillian does... then that could be gold!

[Sevendust]

I reckon, Trillian is the bomb. They could even have a web messenger linked to both Google and Gmail, that way it's free advertising and everyone who has Gmail and uses Google loves them and so will be all the more willing to try the Messenger out.

Huzzah for Google and Mozilla.

[AlCaTrAzz]

i'm still waiting for the unholy alliance of mozilla and google... :D :D :D

[coogle]

MOZOOGLE or GOOGZILLA!

[Sevendust]

It's slowly forming, my cohort. Don't you worry about that. Every day that passes Microsoft is being weakened by conversions to *nix, Firefox and Thunderbird, Google desktop search.

The evil empire will soon fall!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Se7eNdUsT/Midget.jpg

[coogle]

But who will bring balance to the Computer FOrce?

[AlCaTrAzz]

never fear, young padawan... for there is always opera

[BR3TT]

This was mentioned the other day :) Im looking forward to it.

[W00gie]

Does that mean i can click on inbox in MSN messenger and it directs me to my gmail inbox? or something like that? instead of opening outlook express

[RavenKittie]

No w00gie it means you can open it up with your normal mail client such as Outlook or Thunderbird or what have you. :D

[LMo]

im looking forward to the release of google messenger for sure!

and on another note MOZILLA IS THE BOMB!!!!!

[AlCaTrAzz]

a feature of thunderbird that i didn't get until now tho... the ability to download emails and leave the attachments on the server... with a 1gig limit on gmail this will be handy...

[James]

Originally posted by coogle@Nov 15 2004, 03:00 PM
MOZOOGLE or GOOGZILLA!
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:lol:

[Robbo]

Originally posted by AlCaTrAzz@Nov 16 2004, 07:14 AM
a feature of thunderbird that i didn't get until now tho... the ability to download emails and leave the attachments on the server... with a 1gig limit on gmail this will be handy...
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although dont use the 1 gig free storage for illegal purposes. :P cus it sorta brakes the usage agreement and then google do have the right to remove it the attachment or the account :(

[coogle]

I'm going Pop3 wooot.... oh wait. Google. Copyright!

[MaJ]

Originally posted by Sevendust@Nov 15 2004, 02:05 PM
It's slowly forming, my cohort. Don't you worry about that. Every day that passes Microsoft is being weakened by conversions to *nix, Firefox and Thunderbird, Google desktop search.

The evil empire will soon fall!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/Se7eNdUsT/Midget.jpg
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d00d dont say that, ccgl'ers get upset when you talk about whinedows that way.

[AlCaTrAzz]

dont get me wrong, i'm a devout anti-MS person... but i still use and love WinXP mainly cos it makes life so much easier... i'd love to be able to use linux... but until i can walk into eb and choose any game for it, and not have to worry about manually updating distro's and stuff, i'll stick with xp

btw, windows is still the only microsoft thing i use... i love firefox over ie, winamp over WMP etc.

[James]

who really cares though? i'll use whichever one caters to myneeds best. hence xp being on my system.


basically what alc said is my line of thinking... including window sbeing the only ms program i use, other than age of empires 2 :)

but thats only published by ms

[Sevendust]

I'd so be using Linux if I knew how and it was fully compatible with games. Damn MS owning DirectX!

EDIT: What Alc said :D

[Jimmeh]

Is this out yet....?

and also what will or are the pop3 settign for it?