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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 pier25 »

beejiu wrote: post #60
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.

Doesn't Google Workspace start at $7 per month? I can't see a business user going to those lengths to save $1 or $2 per month.

Per user/domain.

I'm retrieving POP emails from multiple domains. To migrate to Google Workspace I'd need to pay like $40 per month... and a couple of those inboxes rarely receive any emails.

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

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Post by cpncrunch »

sumanep wrote: post #298
cracki wrote: post #80

There are two "Gmail" things here: the actual service with a web site (mail.google.com), and an android app on your phone that is called "Gmail". They are axing the "pull" path of the actual service. That path only supported POP for pulling those mails. There never was an IMAP pull path. They are telling you to read your mails of the "other" account by configuring your Gmail app to access it via IMAP. That obviously…

In the gmail app you can use both protocols POP or IMAP. The article is about fetching external accounts in gmail web.

The article isn't explicitly clear about whether or not POP will continue working with the mobile apps or not though.

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Post by cortesoft »

cpncrunch wrote: post #277
cortesoft wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The deprecation is about the webmail version of Gmail. You can’t check other accounts while using the web version of Gmail.

It's a little unclear whether you will still be able to use pop3 on the mobile app or not.

I think you can, but those emails are only going to exist on your phone, though. They aren't imported into your Gmail account itself.

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

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Post by cpncrunch »

cortesoft wrote: post #323
cpncrunch wrote: post #277

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a little unclear whether you will still be able to use pop3 on the mobile app or not.

I think you can, but those emails are only going to exist on your phone, though. They aren't imported into your Gmail account itself.

Yeah, that's fine for my needs. Just hoping it will continue to work that way.

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Post by suzzer99 »

makach wrote: post #136
suzzer99 wrote: post #119

I finally figured out the confusion here. What a terribly worded article. Could mean two different things: 1) Some kind of third-party account (whatever that is) can no longer check (fetch) emails from Gmail via POP. I have a test suite that uses POP to fetch emails from Gmail, so this concerns me. 2) Gmail itself can no longer fetch emails from other email accounts over POP (a feature I had no idea existed). I guess…

It's a shame. I use this functionality to retrieve and delete messages from other mailboxes on a daily basis in order to use Gmail as my primary email interface.

I do the opposite. I forward all my gmails to my primary account.

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Post by suzzer99 »

nl wrote: post #127
suzzer99 wrote: post #119

I finally figured out the confusion here. What a terribly worded article. Could mean two different things: 1) Some kind of third-party account (whatever that is) can no longer check (fetch) emails from Gmail via POP. I have a test suite that uses POP to fetch emails from Gmail, so this concerns me. 2) Gmail itself can no longer fetch emails from other email accounts over POP (a feature I had no idea existed). I guess…

"from third-party accounts" is a better worded version of your (2). Your (1) would be worded in the opposite order.

The problem is unless you know what "third-party accounts" means, it's ambiguous as to which account is being connected to and which account is doing the connecting over POP. "Gmail will no longer support checking emails from [thing I'm unclear on] over POP."

The whole sentence hinges on knowing that Gmail itself can (or could) become a client and go out to other email accounts and fetch emails over POP. In my mind I'm wondering, "Are they talking about something like where Slack connects to gmail?"

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Post by qiine »

citizenpaul wrote: post #313
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…

Google is absolutely notorious for freezing accounts with zero warning, zero explanation and zero recourse. I personally experienced this while working for a charity that used Google workspace. After 8 years they suddenly froze the account. The freeze lasted 32 days. During this period they could not operate and Google was completely unresponsive for the first 2 weeks. Google then started demanding various forms of p…

crazy stuff, looks like youtube is the same

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Post by reaperducer »

mustaphah wrote: post #17
flakeoil wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or forward your gmail to another proper email domain.

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

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

I have accounts on Gmail and other services, and can say from close to a decade of use that Fastmail's spam filter is usually far better than Gmail's.

Occasionally it'll fall behind for a few weeks, but always seems to catch up or surpass Google's.

Over the last couple of months, for example, 100% of the spam I've received has come from Gmail. 0% from Fastmail.

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Post by kilroy123 »

citizenpaul wrote: post #313
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…

Google is absolutely notorious for freezing accounts with zero warning, zero explanation and zero recourse. I personally experienced this while working for a charity that used Google workspace. After 8 years they suddenly froze the account. The freeze lasted 32 days. During this period they could not operate and Google was completely unresponsive for the first 2 weeks. Google then started demanding various forms of p…

I set a reminder on my calendar to do a take out every 3 months and keep my data backed up and refreshed.
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