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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

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Post by anty »

Is there any solution that does not require me to run my own email server?

I have a 2GB email server. I use POP to regularly import the mails into Gmail. This deletes the mails on my limited-storage-server.

I already pay for Google storage. I do not want to pay (more) for another email server just so I can keep all my emails forever.

Forwarding mails does not work, because Gmail quietly drops mails. They don't even put them into the spam folder.

My webhoster told me I could pay for Google Workspace. There you apparently can use your own domain. But then I have a third service I have to pay.

Re: Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP

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Post by andrewguru »

sixhobbits wrote: post #37
jimrandomh wrote: post #12

I 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 use exactly this on my personal (free) and work (paid workspace) accounts. I got an official notification from Google that one member in my workspace (me) has used the feature in the last 30 days and will be affected. I didn't (yet) get a notification on my personal account. I also rely pretty heavily on this feature for a few very low traffic domains that I need but only have super set up on super clunky web mail,…

I run Mailcast.io which you can use to forward email on your domains to your personal Gmail account without setting up any new email client

Re: Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP

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Post by Jolter »

anty wrote: post #181

Is there any solution that does not require me to run my own email server? I have a 2GB email server. I use POP to regularly import the mails into Gmail. This deletes the mails on my limited-storage-server. I already pay for Google storage. I do not want to pay (more) for another email server just so I can keep all my emails forever. Forwarding mails does not work, because Gmail quietly drops mails. They don't even p…

Did you rule out using IMAP?

Re: Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP

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Post by seydor »

rhyswallace wrote: post #150
manmal wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I‘m using this feature, and I‘ve understood the article right away. Yes it’s #2, a little known but very useful feature that I have no idea how I‘ll replace.

Google Workspace handles this nicely (for $10/month...). I used to use the to-be-deprecated feature but ran into some occasional issues, so I bit the bullet to go to Workspace. Feels overkill just to achieve the same outcome as we previously had for free, though.

My understanding is it will be removed from both paid and unpaid versions of Gmail, no?

Re: Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP

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Post by _el1s7 »

OhMeadhbh wrote: post #137

Yeah. Gmail is an anti-pattern. I was paying $10/month for workplace and a couple days ago they froze my account because I was accessing it via IMAP. Fortunately, I own the domain so I pointed it at amazon. I pretty much only use google apps to share docs I've written elsewhere, so I didn't really lose too much when I lost access to apps. It would be much cooler if there were a human I could talk to to find out what…

> they froze my account because I was accessing it via IMAP

Stop being misleading, this is your assumption.

And while I agree that Google support generally sucks, you can actually contact real humans as a workspace customer easily.

Re: Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP

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Post by anty »

Jolter wrote: post #183
anty wrote: post #181

Is there any solution that does not require me to run my own email server? I have a 2GB email server. I use POP to regularly import the mails into Gmail. This deletes the mails on my limited-storage-server. I already pay for Google storage. I do not want to pay (more) for another email server just so I can keep all my emails forever. Forwarding mails does not work, because Gmail quietly drops mails. They don't even p…

Did you rule out using IMAP?

With IMAP i need to run a mail server that stores my mails forever, right? I want to "import" a copy into Gmail and delete it on the original server.

Re: Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP

#187

Post by nottorp »

nulbyte wrote: post #22
mustaphah wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just can't live without the Gmail spamfilter. It's just the best. Industry-leading; no question.

Gmail regularly lets through spam, including backscatter spam from mail sent to the google.com domain spoofing Gmail users. Industry-leading is not the term I would use to describe their spam heuristics. Grey listing has been far more effective at stopping spam than some half-baked AI garbage from Google.

Hmm. Not really. I run greylisting on my personal domain which is extremely low traffic and lately I'm getting like 4-5 spams per day that obey it correctly.

Which is more than the non spam emails that come on it :)

Re: Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP

#188

Post by anty »

sossles wrote: post #105
xp84 wrote: post #41

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.

I have an email forwarder on my personal domain that forwards to my gmail address, and gmail lets me send email as if it were coming from that address. Seems like it's the same result, and they're not blocking that.

Gmail quietly drops forwarded mails sometimes. They don't put them into the spam directory, either.

Re: Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP

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Post by YetAnotherNick »

_el1s7 wrote: post #185
OhMeadhbh wrote: post #137

Yeah. Gmail is an anti-pattern. I was paying $10/month for workplace and a couple days ago they froze my account because I was accessing it via IMAP. Fortunately, I own the domain so I pointed it at amazon. I pretty much only use google apps to share docs I've written elsewhere, so I didn't really lose too much when I lost access to apps. It would be much cooler if there were a human I could talk to to find out what…

> they froze my account because I was accessing it via IMAP Stop being misleading, this is your assumption. And while I agree that Google support generally sucks, you can actually contact real humans as a workspace customer easily.

I don't know why you are downvoted or the parent is upvoted. Clearly the GP is not telling the details and it is highly doubtful that they freeze the workspace account ever without good reason. Unlike standard account, freezing worspace admin account for this definitely means huge customer loss.

Re: Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP

#190

Post by latexr »

manmal wrote: post #173
tempestn wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Set your other accounts to forward them to your gmail with ARC headers, which gmail now supports. Used to be forwarding into gmail was almost unusable due to spam false positives, but I've found it to be significantly improved now (albeit not perfect).

The other account (over which I have no administrative control) does not support ARC. Yes I guess I‘ll just forward emails.

Unrelated, but I noticed this in your two comments and it seems to be something you do frequently—you’re using the wrong side of the quotation character as the apostrophe. You’re using ‘ but it should be ’. See the difference: I‘ll VS I’ll.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_single_quotation_mark

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