An option for "I use gmail for..." should perhaps be "I don't know, I'm still working that out." I would have put that if I could, since I'm currently transitioning to gmail and I'm not sure what I'll use it for.
I actually like GMail for its *other* features besides the 1GB storage: the labels (specifically, ability to assign multiple labels to one email), the sorting by conversation, and the search-within-the-text-of-emails thing.
I get the Word of the Day from Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.Com and WordSmith. I'm building a Reverse Dictionary out of my Gmail so that I can search with definitions to find the words.
The day I will start to use Gmail seems to be in a far-away distant future. Firstly, they don't offer POP3 (obviously: they want you to view their text ads), and they don't allow me to have Timwi (must have at least 6 characters). For the time being, GMX seems to be the better choice for me.
I think I saw somewhere that they were working on it, but somehow it seems to me that Gmail and POP3 just don't go together at all.
Gmail has lots of storage space - POP3 is typically used when you store mail locally and delete it from the mailbox after retrieving it.
Gmail can sort things into labels - POP3 only offers one Inbox.
Gmail allows you to search - POP3 just lets you download all or some mails.
POP3 makes more sense with a "dumb" mailbox; if you wanted to use POP3, you couldn't use Gmail's features anyway, so you might as well use another service.
Gmail with IMAP might make a little more sense, but not POP3. Just two different use cases.
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Gmail and POP3
Gmail has lots of storage space - POP3 is typically used when you store mail locally and delete it from the mailbox after retrieving it.
Gmail can sort things into labels - POP3 only offers one Inbox.
Gmail allows you to search - POP3 just lets you download all or some mails.
POP3 makes more sense with a "dumb" mailbox; if you wanted to use POP3, you couldn't use Gmail's features anyway, so you might as well use another service.
Gmail with IMAP might make a little more sense, but not POP3. Just two different use cases.
Yup, have an account. Several, actually.
Re: Yup, have an account. Several, actually.