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› UKTH forums › ๐ ๏ธ Life & Stuff › Social Media / Networking › Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching 2026. Important news for Gmail power users: Google is dropping the feature whereby Gmail can collect mail from other email accounts over POP3. Google is removing Gmailโs ability to fetch mail...
Important news for Gmail power users: Google is dropping the feature whereby Gmail can collect mail from other email accounts over POP3.
Google is removing Gmailโs ability to fetch mail from other email accounts using POP3.
That โCheck mail from other accounts (POP3)โ feature โ which let you pull email from non-Gmail accounts into your Gmail inbox โ is being discontinued starting January 2026.
Itโs not just POP3 fetch:
Gmailify โ a feature that brought Gmailโs spam protection and inbox features to third-party accounts โ is also being shut down.
What this means for you
Any external emails previously collected into Gmail via POP3 will no longer sync new messages. Only old messages already downloaded remain in your inbox.
The web interface wonโt show the โCheck mail from other accountsโ option anymore (itโs being removed from Settings).
Gmail mobile apps (Android/iOS) can still access external accounts via IMAP, but this is different from the old POP3 fetch and doesnโt bring them into your main Gmail inbox in the same way.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/gmail_dropping_pop3/
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