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**thanatoid** · May 17th 11, 02:20 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion

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I never heard of nPop.

Most people have never heard of the Maybach, either.

I thought Xnews was a newsreader, or does it do email too?

Usenet only. One BEST program for each application/protocol.

Here's my situation. I use gmail for all my email.

nPop allows you to use your gmail account(s) via POP/SMTP
protocol. It is CONSIDERABLY faster than navigating through
their ridiculous web pages.

I dont even have a "real" email address.

You probably do, from your ISP, but it may well be just a
SPAM dumping ground, like mine, I have NEVER used it, my ISP
are assholes.

Anyway, having a usable "real address" is up to you, but you
can get one for about $10-20 a year from one of several
providers most people don't know exist (again). And use POP/SMTP
instead of the dreaded htm mail.

Using Tbird, I am able
to read all of my gmail accounts on my own harddrive (Pop
mail).

See above.

If I had to go thru that whole ordeal to log on to
the gmail website everytime I want to read my email, I'd
stop using email. I hate webmail.

So do I. See above.

Tbird is the only email
software that can do pop-mail from Gmail (unless something
has come out since I set this up about 3 years ago).

Yes, something has, see above. And it's been more than 3
years, I believe.

My installed Tbird is 25 megs. Thats not really big.

Oh really? My installed nPop is 1.5 KB [sic], not counting
the several (you can have as many as you want, even with ONE
POP/STMP provider) mailboxes, which at this point amount to
about 200 KB.

But I'm using an older version. I actually upgraded and as
usual, it was too bloated for my tastes. I went back to
what I had.

Try nPop.