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How to get e-mail during a Gmail outage

Before Gmail fails again, set up a system to retrieve your gmail via IMAP/POP - or, to us non-techies, on your phone.

In the middle of a pleasantly readable/understandable breakdown of yesterday’s outage, this sentence explained why my mail kept coming to my Sidekick:

IMAP/POP access and mail processing continued to work normally because these requests don’t use the same routers.

Also from the Gmail blog is this explanation of (and the differences between) the two acronyms.