Do you prefer your good old desktop email program to Gmail's web interface? You can have both. To get messages received at your Gmail account without going to the Gmail web site, either have Gmail forward incoming mail automatically to another email address or download it directly to your email program.
POP Access and Automatic Forwarding
You can access a Gmail account via POP in any email client or forward its messages elsewhere.
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