OK, so Gmail supports POP now. But one thing seems to be missing: how do you make it work? Telnetting to gmail.google.com on port 110 times out for me. And I couldn't find any docs on Google's site other than the POP announcement.

They're rolling it out in phases.

Hello Anil,

Would you like an invite to Gmail? I have a few extra left. That way you can play around with it and make a final decision if you'd like to use it or not.

Now that's a cool feature, although I'm not so sure I'll be using it.

The whole point behind me using Gmail is to have a big mailbox online where I can have all the emails I might need to access from places other than home.

For other stuff I want downloaded to my email client, basically any pop email account does the job.

I wonder though, will the emails be processed and text ads added into their bodies before download so that people get the ads in their email client inboxes? or are the guys at Google generous enough to pass on ads for people who pop their emails?

I hope they do IMAP as well.