05-01-2026 20:30 via it.slashdot.org

Google To Kill Gmail's POP3 Mail Fetching

Google is quietly killing Gmail's ability to fetch mail from third-party email accounts using POP3, a long-standing feature that has allowed users to consolidate multiple inboxes into a single Gmail interface. The change takes effect this month and also ends Gmailify, the companion feature that applied Gmail's spam filtering and inbox organization to linked third-party accounts.
Google buried the decision in a support note rather than making any formal announcement. The company's suggested worka
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