How to send & receive POP3 emails from Gmail

How would you like to access all your personal or company POP3 email right inside your Gmail account? Well you can. Gmail has been providing this feature for some time now and you can consolidate all your different POP3 accounts inside Gmail. Plus it's very easy to set up too. All you need to do is follow the following 27 steps carefully.

Okay, just kidding. It's actually just 7 easy steps. All you need is to enter is your POP3 username and password. First step login to Gmail and click on Mail settings on the top right corner.

Go to Accounts and Import > Check mail using POP3 > Add POP3 mail account you own. Enter your POP3 email address.

Usually Gmail will automatically detect your POP3 setting and fill in your POP server and port setting. In case it doesn't, ask your network administrator for the POP3 server and port setting. They are usually mail.yourdomain.com with the port number 110. Key in your POP3 email password. By now you can already receive external POP3 emails using Gmail.

This next step allows you to send email using your external POP3 account using Gmail.

Enter a name to identify yourself.

You have the option to let Gmail handle all your outgoing email or you can enter your own SMTP server setting yourself. Obviously the first option is much easier and more reliable because Gmail rarely (if ever) experience any down time. If you insist of sending emails through your own SMTP server, ask your network administrator for the right server name and SMTP port (usually 587 or 25).

Next Gmail is going to verify that you really own that POP3 email address. Click Send Verification.

Check your POP3 email for the verification code and link. Just clicking the link will finish the verification process.

That's it! You can now send and receive email form any of your POP3 accounts using Gmail. It's very handy when you have multiple POP3 accounts or you would like to consolidate all your email accounts inside Gmail. Other than your personal POP3 account, you can also access Hotmail using this method. Yahoo however doesn't allow this because they suck and nobody uses them anymore these days. In fact you have to upgrade to Yahoo Mail Premium to be able to use their POP3 service.

Good luck Jim.
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Turn your Gmail account into a free 2.7GB online storage

There's several ways to turn your Gmail account into a free online storage. For Windows users, the easiest way is to install the Gmail drive Windows Explorer extension. You can download the application here.
After installing that little application, a new drive will be created in your Windows Explorer window named Gmail Drive. Right click on this new drive and choose Login As. Enter your Gmail username and password when prompted. It is recommended that you create a new Gmail account for this purpose so that you can keep your existing Gmail account safe. After logging in, you can now copy, paste and create folders in this new Gmail Drive just like any regular Windows folder. However, bear in mind that this program is still very experimental and certain things can go wrong (like being locked out of your Gmail account for irregular POP3 activities). That's why it is recommended that you create a new account just to be safe.
For Linux and Mac users, there's a Firefox extension called Gspace created specifically for this purpose. To install the extension, visit their website and click Download on the appropriate operating system.
Your Firefox browser might automatically block this installation so you'll have to click 'allow' to continue. Once Gspace is installed, click Tools and then Gspace to open the Gspace panel.
Then click Manage Accounts and enter your preferred Gmail username and password. Once you're logged in, you can transfer just about any files you like to your Gmail account.
All your uploaded files will be available as new e-mails in your Gmail inbox. I've successfully uploaded files up to 20MB in size without any problem so far but I'm not so sure about the file size limit. Feel free to experiment though.
And that's it, happy uploading!