I’m not sure how new this is but Gmail now offers IMAP support for your free/anonymous account. This is great, because the natural progression is for this support to show up in the hosted applications site.

As much as I don’t like Google’s policies, they do make good tools.. and this looks like another step in their march towards world domination.

I hope Yahoo! follows suit, as I actually prefer Yahoo! mail, and the company in general.

Anyway, here’s the help page for IMAP support