> I've been doing this for years
Downloading email via POP or IMAP? Ever since I started using email in the 90's. I never deviated from it. In the old days, even the free mail hosts gave you POP access.
My own domain? Doing it for over 20 years.
> I've been doing this for years
Downloading email via POP or IMAP? Ever since I started using email in the 90's. I never deviated from it. In the old days, even the free mail hosts gave you POP access.
My own domain? Doing it for over 20 years.
Yep, pretty much the same story here. The only (relatively) recent innovation is the bit where mail sent to foo@domain.com lands in a folder called "foo", so I neither have to sort out a messy inbox nor check many accounts individually.
As of last week, Google is on-track to discontinue POP-polling functionality. I've been using this for about 20 years, not sure what to do. What a pain.
Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP (support.google.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45439670 - 6 days ago, 372 comments
This is alarming if you just skim the headline (which I did, and was slightly alarmed), but it is about having gmail download from third-party accounts, not downloading emails from gmail. I don't think many people do this anyway, but I'm sure it was very convenient for some.