Hack Your Gmail Account For A 100% Browser-free POP3 Access

[*dcs18]

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[RadioActive]

One of the best features of Gmail is their highly effective/accurate spam-filter, so why would I want to bypass that and rely solely on a 3rd party application? I'm just saying.

PS: I do use an e-mail client with POP3 to access my mails.

[Sl@pSh0ck™]

I'm at lost here .... I do use an email client and have gmail setup for pop3 and I'm glad all those spam emails are filtered and don't reach my email client's inbox or spam folder (my spam folder would only contain those emails from addresses I myself marked as spam) .... now what is the benefit of having these spam emails come through though?

[*dcs18]

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[shought]

This is very useful indeed :) Even though the Google spam filter is very reliable, it'll have false positives as well ;)

[RadioActive]

Every person like you and me who uses an email client benefits from this hack in terms of time.

I'm afraid I have to disagree. While this guide might prove useful to "the Perfectionists amongst us" but it won't save anyone's time, at least not from my point-of-view. On the contrary, because now you have to manually vet ALL the incoming mail.

I been using Gmail for almost a decade now and I rarely (if ever) bothered look through the SPAM folder. It's true that's not perfect but it's pretty damn good, and the amount of false positives are very low.

That being said, if you require that level of access to your mailbox then why don't you simply use IMAP instead POP3? Just curious.

[*dcs18]

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[RadioActive]

Forget about low false positives - I wouldn't afford losing even a single email {a delay in receipt of that single mail (false positive) could cost dearly both in terms of time and business, too.} Well, even on the domestic front, one false positive can cause a breakup - or worse, draw the wrong pair to wedlock. :D

A little melodramatic but plausible...I guess, fortunately for me I'm somewhat indifferent so I couldn't care less about things like that :lol:

Well, I do understand your frustration regarding IMAP, I prefer the good old POP3 myself. Although I use Microsoft's Office Outlook 2007, mainly because it gets the job done, but more importantly because it's the only e-mail client I tried (and I tried A LOT) with proper R-T-L language support (namely Arabic).

Bottom line, whether this guide proves useful or not depends solely on the person and his needs. From my point-of-view me it's counter-productive while for you it's essential, it's simply difference of needs :)

[*dcs18]

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[toyo]

Used to have my account set to POP, then made a switch some years ago and never looked back. I use Gmail IMAP/Opera. I have set it to only fetch the text, and I download attachments only if I want to. Until Opera 11 I used to have a pretty large mail folder (700 MB-ish) but Opera 11 keeps it small (under 100 MB). You can drag and drop whatever emails and set your folders how you like.

I hope your IMAP experience will change for the better as it is far superior to POP.

[*dcs18]

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[portage]

However, IMAP can be useful for someone else who . . . . . . . :-

01.) . . . . . . . does not depend on offline mails.

02.) . . . . . . . does not have a massive mail-file.

03.) . . . . . . . does not receive huge attachments.

04.) . . . . . . . does not have common folders from multiple mixed email accounts (like Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! etc., etc.) being retrieved by the same email client, etc., etc.

That sounds like me. B)

[*dcs18]

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[toyo]

Just use Gmail&Opera M2. Everything on the browser, and you can chose between IMAP or POP. I tried everything, The Bat, Thunderbird, Live Mail and Outlook and neither was as cozy as Opera with it's M2. So accommodating and easy to use and everything is in the same window...

[*dcs18]

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[toyo]

It's not about "advanced". It's a mail client. And we're humans, so have the capacity to learn and adapt to anything we find useful. You need to be "gifted" to paint, or make music. Not to use a mail client.

Also, we are on the nsane forums. That is a pretty tech community - we're not here to talk about fashion or weather.

I hope you see where I'm going with this...

Note: M2 is (or was?) the name for the internal client , used to differentiate it from the Opera web mail service.

[*dcs18]

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