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G.I.Josh · Feb 23rd, 2005, 4:54 PM

I was reading about gmail possibly enabling pop3 so that people can read it like they would an smtp/pop3 email acount. My question is this: Why couldn't you just write a program to use http instead of pop3 to download the email and put it in the folder standard email would go?

Feb 23rd, 2005, 4:54 PM	#1
G.I.Josh Programmer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Eastern U.S Posts: 51 Rep Power: 5	app to dl webmail to pc I was reading about gmail possibly enabling pop3 so that people can read it like they would an smtp/pop3 email acount. My question is this: Why couldn't you just write a program to use http instead of pop3 to download the email and put it in the folder standard email would go? __________________ http://exponentialab.blogspot.com/ - w00t, I've started a blog!