Gmail Says Goodbye to Gmailify and POP3: What Users Need to Know

Google is ending Gmailify and POP-based fetching in Gmail, pushing users toward forwarding or IMAP in the mobile app to keep ...

Google's Getting Rid of a Way to Import Third-Party Accounts Into Gmail

Gmail is phasing out syncing email from third-party email accounts via POP. Users can shift to IMAP, but it's not quite the same.
ZDNet

Gmail IMAP is here, but BlackBerry users may want to stick with POP

IMAP support continues to roll out from Gmail and I just found that my account was provisioned for it sometime last night. I also am now using a T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve as my main device so I ...

Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching

It's January 2026, and Google is finding innovative new ways to make one of its services worse Important news for Gmail power users: Google is dropping the feature whereby Gmail can collect mail from ...
CNET

Hands-on with Gmail's new IMAP support

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Gmail is quietly removing a feature that could stop emails from reaching your inbox

Google is shaking up Gmail to start off 2026 by ending support for POP3 and Gmailify.
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Google To Deprecate SSLv3, RC4 in Gmail IMAP/POP Clients

Google will next week begin a gradual deprecation of unsafe crypto protocol SSLv3 and cipher RC4 in Gmail IMAP/POP clients. Google said that it will initiate on June 16 a gradual deprecation of SSLv3 ...