Google's Gmail allows you to do the POP3 download. I have never used Outlook Express but I wanted a place to test the downloadable feature of Gmail, so I set it up, and it works. It is still set to also reside on the Google server, though I could remove that and have it load to my machine and wipe it from the server (like most traditional POP3 programs do).

If I change out my email programs I'd set up my regular email programs (Pegasus, Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora) to receive the mail to the new address as a different identity. It used to be a lot harder to do this, to let one program process mail for several accounts. Of the three, I like Thunderbird and Eudora the best. Pegasus is powerful but it gets quirky every now and then.

SRS