diff --git a/readme.rst b/readme.rst
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+++ b/readme.rst
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Basic POP3 Example: ``pop3://username:password@server``
 
 Most mailboxes these days are SSL-enabled; if yours is, add ``+ssl`` to your URI.  Also, if your username or password include any non-ascii characters,  they should be URL-encoded (for example, if your username includes an ``@``, it should be changed to ``%40`` in your URI).
 
-If you have an account named 'contemporanea@gmail.com' with a password of '1234' on GMail (which I happen to know uses the POP3 server of 'pop3.gmail.com' and requires SSL), you would enter the following as your URI::
+If you have an account named 'contemporanea@gmail.com' with a password of '1234' on GMail (which I happen to know uses the POP3 server of 'pop.gmail.com' and requires SSL), you would enter the following as your URI::
 
     pop3+ssl://contemporanea%40gmail.com:1234@pop.gmail.com