External IMAP service if your provider sticks to POP3 only?

Question

My email provider refuses to implement IMAP email service. They stick to POP3 and will not change it imho ever.

Is there any service which can emulate imap service? I want to attach some service to my email pop account. this service would pull all the email and deliver it to me (on all my computers) as IMAP email.

Does any such service exist?

Answer 1

You can set up a Gmail account (many other providers offer the same functionality, I'm just familiar with Gmail) and make it pull in your POP3 mails.

Then, access Gmail through IMAP.

A transparent proxy does not exist to my knowledge.