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In making the switch to gmail as my primary e-mail address, I had to work through the pop3 situation and I found some interesting features or bugs, depending on how you look at it.
One is the way that Gmail's pop3 email retrieval is configured so that you can only download your messages via pop3 once. So if you have more than one machine that checks via pop3, the messages will only be retrieved to one machine. I think someone already pointed this one out including the workaround of automatically forwarding to additioanl gmail accounts dedicated to particular machines.
Another quirk which only seems to be an issue with Pocket Inbox is how Gmail only makes available for pop3 retrieval those messages that are received in the same calendar day. This causes a problem in Pocket Inbox since in Pocket Inbox, it will remove from the inbox those messages that are no longer available on the server. I did a workaround by automatically forwarding my Gmail messages to an imap server. Also, if you use WebIS Mail, this doesn't seem to be an issue.
And the last one is definitely a feature. I love how Gmail implemented their SMTP server so that when you send messages via the Gmail SMTP server, it will save sent messages (regardless of which machine sent it) in the Gmail Sent mailbox and even attach it to the related conversation. Also, if you send a message via the Gmail web interface, it will drop a copy of your sent message in the pop3 queue so that you will have a copy on your local e-mail client boxes.
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