POP3 gonna Go

drdang · 12-11-2005, 08:23 PM

Well i use yahoomail and recently tried Gmail. Its Awesome service. the reason for giving it a try was POP3 service and it was far better than i expected. i think they gonna shun pop3 service as they get out of beta!. as they cant let people use clients to send and get emails. they need to earn money by showing ad's in inboxes. They are just luring users of yahoo and hotmail to use there service and later they gonna close this service. i will be amazed if they keep this service free. lets see what they have in there mind. what you people think about this???

Pepper · 12-11-2005, 09:22 PM

see thats the thing....google is different, and is always trying to be better. No one believed that they would offer so much space that they provide. They have pop3, soon everyone is going to have pop3. Its just like how yahoo copied and gave more space for their email stuff. Google will always try to be better than their compitition and so far they are doing a great job of it.

drdang · 12-11-2005, 09:29 PM

Pepper i know they are different but just think, can you ever use 2GB space for your emails. i think a 250MB box cant be filled with ease.if people shifted to gmail just because they think it has much more space i think people are still fools and i am talking about POP3 service, its the best part of gmail. i admit they are better than yahoo over that. but the question is, will it be free forever?? and NO one will provide free pop3. Even Hotmail has droped POP3 from its free service list.

kcmandava · 12-12-2005, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by drdang

Pepper i know they are different but just think, can you ever use 2GB space for your emails. i think a 250MB box cant be filled with ease.if people shifted to gmail just because they think it has much more space i think people are still fools and i am talking about POP3 service, its the best part of gmail. i admit they are better than yahoo over that. but the question is, will it be free forever?? and NO one will provide free pop3. Even Hotmail has droped POP3 from its free service list.

Sorry to quote such a long post but google will continue to provide such services free of cost. Thats because these services don't really cost what they want you to believe. Hotmail which offered a measly 2MB for a decade shifted to 250 MB in a jiffy. And like wise Yahoo jumped in to the bandwagon too. Do you think either Hotmail or Yahoo's cost of operations doubled overnight? No, in fact their share prices went up instead.

Lupine1647 · 12-12-2005, 01:39 PM

Here's the problem with your logic. If google introduces a feature and then goes out of beta, that feature will most likly stay unless it's causing issues. Either way, go ask Google for official confirmation but what you're saying I really doubt will happen. Not everyone will use POP3.

andrew247 · 12-12-2005, 01:48 PM

I don't think Google will ever charge for Gmail.
drdang: 250mb is quite easy to fill up

I'm nearly at a gigabyte

kcmandava · 12-12-2005, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by andrew247

I don't think Google will ever charge for Gmail.
drdang: 250mb is quite easy to fill up

I'm nearly at a gigabyte

I agree. Particulary if you use gmail as your backup, 2 GB also is no big deal.

mondine · 12-12-2005, 04:13 PM

Well, I can certainly understand the concern. It has indeed been a business model of a lot of people, before. I've had a few accounts that dropped the POP3 after an introductory period.
But there are some differences. First of all, Google is big, and varied enough that it is less important to grab a big share of any one captive market. And they know that enough people prefer the web interface that the adspace there will remain profitable.
They also tend to be more independant. Yahoo, for example, bundles its 'premium' services for some ISP customers. Obviously the value would be lessened if others were getting this for free.
(Although this is not market-wide. Yahoo.ca accounts, for example, still offer free POP3 access.)
And Google's marketing has always been a little different- relying on the goodwill of willing consumers, rather than trapping customers like certain nameless would-be monopolies.
They have a vested interest in keeping people happy, and attracted to a broad spectrum of their services.

Pepper · 12-13-2005, 12:50 PM

also, it probally depends on your age. You say that 2 gig's are too much...well..that might be that you just doing do alot with email and all that, i get alot of important emails daily and have over a gig of space being used right now, so i love gmail for that.

nome525 · 01-03-2006, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by drdang

Well i use yahoomail and recently tried Gmail. Its Awesome service. the reason for giving it a try was POP3 service and it was far better than i expected.

I have Yahoo mail as well, you can get it to work as POP3 by downloading a small application called YPOPS it can be downloaded at http://www.ypopsemail.com/ install it and configure it to your mail client, I use Opera as my web browser and mail client. it works real good

hope this helps!

12-11-2005, 08:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
drdang Noogle Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 20 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	POP3 gonna Go Well i use yahoomail and recently tried Gmail. Its Awesome service. the reason for giving it a try was POP3 service and it was far better than i expected. i think they gonna shun pop3 service as they get out of beta!. as they cant let people use clients to send and get emails. they need to earn money by showing ad's in inboxes. They are just luring users of yahoo and hotmail to use there service and later they gonna close this service. i will be amazed if they keep this service free. lets see what they have in there mind. what you people think about this???

12-12-2005, 04:13 PM	#8 (permalink)
mondine Google Guru Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Vancouver, BC. Posts: 4,002 Thanks: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 3 Posts	Well, I can certainly understand the concern. It has indeed been a business model of a lot of people, before. I've had a few accounts that dropped the POP3 after an introductory period. But there are some differences. First of all, Google is big, and varied enough that it is less important to grab a big share of any one captive market. And they know that enough people prefer the web interface that the adspace there will remain profitable. They also tend to be more independant. Yahoo, for example, bundles its 'premium' services for some ISP customers. Obviously the value would be lessened if others were getting this for free. (Although this is not market-wide. Yahoo.ca accounts, for example, still offer free POP3 access.) And Google's marketing has always been a little different- relying on the goodwill of willing consumers, rather than trapping customers like certain nameless would-be monopolies. They have a vested interest in keeping people happy, and attracted to a broad spectrum of their services. __________________

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12-11-2005, 09:22 PM	#2 (permalink)
Pepper Google Freak Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: St. Louis, Missouri Posts: 443 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	see thats the thing....google is different, and is always trying to be better. No one believed that they would offer so much space that they provide. They have pop3, soon everyone is going to have pop3. Its just like how yahoo copied and gave more space for their email stuff. Google will always try to be better than their compitition and so far they are doing a great job of it.

12-11-2005, 09:29 PM	#3 (permalink)
drdang Noogle Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 20 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Pepper i know they are different but just think, can you ever use 2GB space for your emails. i think a 250MB box cant be filled with ease.if people shifted to gmail just because they think it has much more space i think people are still fools and i am talking about POP3 service, its the best part of gmail. i admit they are better than yahoo over that. but the question is, will it be free forever?? and NO one will provide free pop3. Even Hotmail has droped POP3 from its free service list.

12-12-2005, 01:39 PM	#5 (permalink)
Lupine1647 Elite Googler Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Kansas City, Missouri Posts: 1,065 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Here's the problem with your logic. If google introduces a feature and then goes out of beta, that feature will most likly stay unless it's causing issues. Either way, go ask Google for official confirmation but what you're saying I really doubt will happen. Not everyone will use POP3.

12-12-2005, 01:48 PM	#6 (permalink)
andrew247 Google Guru Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: c:\GoogleCommunity Posts: 3,386 Thanks: 3 Thanked 13 Times in 13 Posts	I don't think Google will ever charge for Gmail. drdang: 250mb is quite easy to fill up I'm nearly at a gigabyte

12-13-2005, 12:50 PM	#9 (permalink)
Pepper Google Freak Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: St. Louis, Missouri Posts: 443 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	also, it probally depends on your age. You say that 2 gig's are too much...well..that might be that you just doing do alot with email and all that, i get alot of important emails daily and have over a gig of space being used right now, so i love gmail for that.

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