Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP
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Re: Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP
#2goddamn it
Re: Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP
#3The linked page says that Gmail is discontinuing support for the old Post Office Protocol in favor of IMAP. Nobody has used POP much in years. Decades, maybe.
IMAP can check for mail without downloading. But apparently Gmail doesn't support that.
You can do this the other way round. Use a local email client such as Thunderbird on desktop or FastMail on Android to check Gmail and any other email accounts you have.
Re: Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP
#4The linked page says that Gmail is discontinuing support for the old Post Office Protocol in favor of IMAP. Nobody has used POP much in years. Decades, maybe. IMAP can check for mail without downloading. But apparently Gmail doesn't support that. You can do this the other way round. Use a local email client such as Thunderbird on desktop or FastMail on Android to check Gmail and any other email accounts you have.
only the phone app supports imap. the web app does not, it used to support pop
Re: Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP
#5The linked page says that Gmail is discontinuing support for the old Post Office Protocol in favor of IMAP. Nobody has used POP much in years. Decades, maybe. IMAP can check for mail without downloading. But apparently Gmail doesn't support that. You can do this the other way round. Use a local email client such as Thunderbird on desktop or FastMail on Android to check Gmail and any other email accounts you have.
No, they're discontinuing POP 'import' (so mail ends up stored in Gmail) configured in the web app and available everywhere, in favour of IMAP client access from the mobile clients only.
Fine for some people, not at all equivalent for others. (I'm disinterested, fwiw, haven't used Gmail other than an alumni forwarding address for years.) It's not just a protocol change.
Re: Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP
#6I thought they would want us sucking down our external mail into their system to keep us inside the wall with scannable data. What the heck.
Re: Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP
#7I guess they couldn't find anyone qualified to maintain the mailfetcher.
Re: Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP
#8A quick hack: forward @yourdomain.com emails to your Gmail (e.g, Cloudflare Email Routing).
Outbound emails sent via "Send mail as:" using SMTP remain unaffected.
Re: Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP
#9I guess they couldn't find anyone qualified to maintain the mailfetcher.
I wonder if this is a little about storage costs? I mean, at their scale, i imagine the core cost of the actual storage by itself is pretty negligible...but maybe combined with other infra. (beyond storage) that needs to be considered in the total costs related to storing and managing POP pulls...maybe their data shows that it simply wasn't worth it to them to keep said functionality around? But, your comment did make me chuckle a little! :-)
Re: Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP
#10This will be a major inconvenience for migrating mail accounts. I used the POP feature a lot to get mails from one account to the other without requiring a client to do the dirty work.
A migration is still possible, but needing to keep a client up and running to push up mails via IMAP will be a major painpoint.