# What email(POP compatible) has the best cost effectiveness?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-email-pop-compatible-has-the-best-cost-effectiveness/260702
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 20, 2004, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-email-pop-compatible-has-the-best-cost-effectiveness/260702 "2004-08-20T11:38:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2004, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-email-pop-compatible-has-the-best-cost-effectiveness/260702/1 "2004-08-20T11:38:49Z")
I want to know what the best email is that offers POP. I like myrealbox(free), but it isn’t working as well lately. Yahoo is $20 a year. Is that a good rate? What do you recommend?
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### Author:  [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2004, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-email-pop-compatible-has-the-best-cost-effectiveness/260702/2 "2004-08-20T13:08:24Z")
gmail is slated to start offering POP3
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### Author:  [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2004, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-email-pop-compatible-has-the-best-cost-effectiveness/260702/3 "2004-08-20T13:21:16Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#):
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> gmail is slated to start offering POP3
Really? Because that’s the only feature that I miss.
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### Author:  [@richardb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/richardb)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2004, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-email-pop-compatible-has-the-best-cost-effectiveness/260702/4 "2004-08-21T03:46:35Z")
After checking out several services that offered POP, I went with:
[Fastmail](http://www.fastmail.fm/)
They have a free service, and three paid levels at either a one-time $14.95, or $19.95 or $39.95 a year.
Worth checking out.
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### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-email-pop-compatible-has-the-best-cost-effectiveness/260702/5 "2004-08-21T15:28:54Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#):
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> gmail is slated to start offering POP3
[Coming soon](http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7402&query=pop&topic=&type=f)
> [@](#):
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> Does Gmail support automatic forwarding and POP3 access?
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> Answer
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> Not at the moment, but Google believes in helping people access information whenever and however they want to do so. In the future you will be able to access Gmail messages from non-Gmail accounts for free or at a nominal fee.
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### Author:  [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2004, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-email-pop-compatible-has-the-best-cost-effectiveness/260702/6 "2004-08-21T17:15:05Z")
[Howlermonkey](http://howlermonkey.net/)
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2004, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-email-pop-compatible-has-the-best-cost-effectiveness/260702/7 "2004-08-21T17:30:53Z")
I personally like Yahoo mail a lot. I could see in the future perhaps paying for their POP access.