Hypothesis: This feature is actually a very serviceable way for a small business or individual to have a branded email address on very cheap email hosting, while getting Gmail features for free. Google wants such people to be paying for Google Workspace if they don't want to be advertising the Gmail brand on their address.
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
#42What in the world was "Gmailify"? Was it different from adding third-party accounts via POP? (Was it maybe just IMAP for third-party accounts?)
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#43Back to the old Thunderbird days I guess.
By now, it's new and quite neat :)
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, i agree...which adds to my guess that its not *just* about storage...but something else above/beyond storage. In other words, maybe whatever infra is in place to do the fetching, storing, etc...is way more costly than the storage and way too costly to justify for the crazy low numbers that i would agree would still be using POP in this day and age and via gmail.
You might be onto something here. Perhaps other mail services have a habit of banning the Google mailfetcher and it takes effort to get it unbanned.
> Perhaps other mail services have a habit of banning the Google mailfetcher and it takes effort to get it unbanned.
Yeah, that's a perfectly reasonable theory right there!
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#45Back to the old Thunderbird days I guess.
Some of us are still using mutt!
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#46I can't tell whether I use this; the description in the article sort-of matches a feature I use, but not exactly. The feature I use is labelled "Check mail from other accounts" and appears in the "Accounts and Import" tab in Gmail web; it causes Gmail to periodically retrieve emails from an external server using POP, and merge them into my main inbox. This article refers to the option "Check mail from other accounts"…
I imagine the "POP only works with a single device" is in reference to the Gmail App's support for POP
POP access of a different account on the web would be the "Check mail from other accounts"
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#47Hypothesis: This feature is actually a very serviceable way for a small business or individual to have a branded email address on very cheap email hosting, while getting Gmail features for free. Google wants such people to be paying for Google Workspace if they don't want to be advertising the Gmail brand on their address.
They did the same with free version of Google Workspace. It's just no longer free.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
The top comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440465 makes it clear that what you're referring to is exactly what is being deprecated.
No it doesn't make it clear, because it's written by a third party reading the same internally-inconsistent page I am; any information added beyond the Google documentation page is conjecture.
"Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts through POP." seems quite clear.
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#49I'm not one to defend google, but it seems that they are only ending support for POP accounts, and retaining support for IMAP/SMTP. Seems like a reasonable deprecation for 2025, although they could have given more than a quarter to let people handle the change.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
No it doesn't make it clear, because it's written by a third party reading the same internally-inconsistent page I am; any information added beyond the Google documentation page is conjecture.
"Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts through POP." seems quite clear.
Good god Google can't be bothered to not wreck shit that doesn't cost them much, eh?
Doesn't surprise me too much though, Gmail hasn't seen much maintenance and polish over the last few years.