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You don't seem fully serious, but the writing is probably on the wall for third party tools which integrate with GMail. I use InboxZero through Beeminder, and
by hyeonwho4 7y ago
You don't seem fully serious, but the writing is probably on the wall for third party tools which integrate with GMail.
I use InboxZero through Beeminder, and could see Beeminder being locked out.
- michaelmrose 7y agoIdeally your Gmail ought to be through a domain and services that add value via imap. Then its impossible for the functionality to evaporate.
- freen 7y agoYou are assuming they will retain imap functionality. Ask the xmpp/jabber folks about hangouts.
- xyzzy_plugh 7y agoYeah I fully expect imap to disappear in the next few years. I've started migrating to domains I own for this reason. I can see them keeping it around for enterprise for a bit longer, though.
- gonyea 7y agoUh, you realize that imap support has been in GMail for its entire history?
- ceejayoz 7y agoSo? Doesn’t mean they can’t get rid of it.
- michaelmrose 7y agoGetting rid of say outlook support would greatly weaken Gmail. Furthermore if you have an up to date sync on the day imap support ends then you have all your email and need face only changing over to a new address or if you already use a custom domain logging on and changing the email provider.
- kalleboo 7y agoGoogle Talk had XMPP support for its entire history... until they killed it
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- michaelmrose 7y agoI assumed nothing. If you sync regularly via imap you could switch providers tomorrow and lose nothing.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoGood for you, that's the smart way to use e-mail. But most people, many of in tech and many of them knowing better, rely on GMail's web and mobile apps. Also, unless you're using IMAP to sync the entire mailbox, you'd still lose. If your mail program only stores e.g. last 30 days of mail locally, and lets everything else live on the mailserver, then you'd only have 30 days worth of e-mails left.
- michaelmrose 7y agoThis would be assuming that google opted to drop imap with zero warning AND you weren't smart enough to sync all your mail. The first is out of character for google and the second is totally within your control. All your mail is for most people merely GB at most per user.
- gonyea 7y agoThere are contractual obligations around changes to GSuite products (and their APIs).
- TeMPOraL 7y agoContracts expire and can be not renewed.
- StudentStuff 7y agoFor select users that are willing to advocate for themselves against Google and are covered under a binding, unexpired contract Google will likely let them continue using said APIs. Everyone else is likely to see APIs break at Google's whim, as most users aren't covered by custom GSuite contracts.
- swebs 7y agoThey make it really difficult to use your Gmail account with K9 Mail. You have to jump through a bunch of hoops and "critical security warnings" for attempting to sign in with a non-Google app.