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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 i
by suzzer99 1y ago
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 means #2. But it took me a long time to figure that out. You'd think a $trillion company could word things better.
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- nl 1y ago"from third-party accounts" is a better worded version of your (2). Your (1) would be worded in the opposite order.
- suzzer99 1y agoThe 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?"
- makach 1y agoIt'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.
- manmal 1y agoI‘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.
- comboy 1y agoDoes your other account not provide IMAP?
- manmal 1y agoNo
- DarkmSparks 1y agoIts google that never supported fetching mails over imap, not clear if they do now.
- Strom 1y agoThe other account may provide IMAP but it won't help you because GMail only supports POP (which is now going away). GMail does NOT support IMAP for 3rd party accounts. The GMail mobile app does support IMAP, but that is different from GMail as a service supporting it. The mobile app having IMAP support does nothing for people who use a web browser.
- rhyswallace 1y agoGoogle 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.
- tambourine_man 1y agoThank you. I still use POP to download and backup my emails. Terribly worded article.
- hollerith 1y agoI understood the title right away despite never having known about the feature. (I knew about the standard way to use POP with a gmail account.)
- burnte 1y agoIt's number 2. But IMAP still works.
- pdntspa 1y agoI've been using (2) for probably 15+ years, combined with tagging it has been great for consolidating multiple email boxes into one feed. That said you can get the same thing by setting up an auto-forwarder to your gmail box.
- ezconnect 1y ago#2 was frequently used as a spam filter for private domain emails that don't want to deal with setting up spam filters on their mail servers. I used this a decade or so ago in one of my online store it was very good at spam filtering and you get to use one webmail client to process all your emails from different domains.
- hsn915 1y agoOh? I had no idea it could mean #2 until I saw this comment.