Free POP Access in Gmail

Free POP Access in Gmail

{Gmail is unique in comparison to other popular email providers like Yahoo, Rediff, Indiatimes, etc because it provides the email user with a completely free facility of downloading emails using the PO protocol.  The others, to my knowledge, charge for this convenience.  It means you no longer have to login in using your browser all the time.  It also means all your mails are much more easily accessible since they are stored locally on your hard disk.  Interested - here is how you configure your email client}

 

POP means Post Office Protocol.  In computing, local e-mail clients use the Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3), an application-layer Internet standard protocol, to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection. Many subscribers to individual Internet service provider e-mail accounts access their e-mail with client software that uses POP3. POP3 has made earlier versions of the protocol, informally called POP1 and POP2, obsolete. In contemporary usage, the less precise term POP almost always means POP3 in the context of e-mail protocols. The design of POP3 and its procedures supports end-users with intermittent connections (such as dial-up connections), allowing these users to retrieve e-mail when connected and then to view and manipulate the retrieved messages without needing to stay connected. Although most clients have an option to leave mail on server, e-mail clients using POP3 generally connect, retrieve all messages, store them on the user's PC as new messages, delete them from the server, and then disconnect.  Source: Wikipedia