Gmail Ending Support for Gmailify and POP Fetching

Michael, your headline says Gmail is "ending support for POP". But is that perhaps a bit over broad? It looks to me like there was a special feature allowing you to import email via POP from other email accounts that is being discontinued. But it doesn't say anything about discontinuing POP for reading from Gmail.

This distinction is important for me because I have Mailing List mode enabled on my Discourse server thru a Gmail account, and I believe this uses POP (though it's been nearly a decade since I set this up so my memory is a bit fuzzy). Ok, yes, I just checked, and this Discourse feature does use POP. So if Google does discontinue POP, the ability to reply via email on the forum will break. But it doesn't sound to me like Google is discontinuing all POP support, at least not yet.

@Jim You’re right—I’ve fixed the headline.

This is absolutely going to have casualties. The "Aggregate and wash email at Google, possibly forward elsewhere" pattern is widespread.

This is actually old news now, but I've migrated to using getmail6 to fetch on my own Mac Mini. Notwithstanding Apple Mail's data loss bugs, in principle you could do the same with rules.

I've got an old email address I still check - the loss of the second feature impacts me. It really stinks to lose that.

I opted to install Thunderbird in a Docker container running on a Linux host, as well as an extension to be able to redirect email. I set up a rule to redirect all incoming email to my current address. It's mostly working fine.

Fastmail still supports aggregation this way.