Gmail POP access

My gmail account now has POP access. Gmail started providing POP access for its email accounts in phases a couple of days back. The last time I checked, I still did not have POP access. I checked today and found that now my account has been provided POP access.

The first step was to enable POP access. I did that by selecting the following options in the "Forwarding" > "Forwarding and POPAccount" section:
1. Enable POP for all mail (even mail that's already been downloaded)
2. When messages are accessed with POP: keep Gmail's copy in the Inbox.

The account configuration was pretty much straightforward. Configuration instructions are given in the Gmail Help section.

After setting up POP access for my gmail account, I tried sending and receiving emails using Outlook Express. It is working great.