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Figure 10.4 gMail offers several tabs of settings.
. he Labels tab lets you generate new labels, rename labels, and
remove labels.
. he Filters tab lets you ilter your messages (we've looked at that
already).
. he Forwarding and POP tab lets you either forward all your e-mail
(and either archive or trash GMail's copy) or download your e-mail from
GMail (and either trash or keep GMail's copy). Note that you have to
enable POP forwarding before you can use it. It's disabled by default.
Should you enable POP or not? If you'd rather keep your e-mail archived on
your own computer, either for security reasons or because your own e-mail
program has a more sophisticated ilter, you should probably enable POP and
then delete your messages from GMail. If you instead work from several difer-
ent computers and never know where you'll be getting your mail next, make
sure you're not using POP and are just accessing your mail from the Web.