How many people are still using Post Office Protocol (POP, aka POP3) to retrieve their email messages nowadays? And how many people were using POP to pull mail from an external email account into their Gmail inbox?
I'm not sure it's millions of people, to be honest. But if you're one of those people, note that Google is ending support for this come January 2026. From that point, you'll no longer find an option called "Check mail from other accounts" in your Gmail webmail settings.
Already downloaded email messages won't be deleted from your Gmail account, but you'll lose the ability to download anything new.
Google recommends that you configure the Gmail app for Android, iPhone or iPad to directly query any other accounts that you might have previously accessed using this functionality.
Also note, Gmail's "POP download" setting still exists. You can access your Gmail inbox via POP from a POP-supporting email client. What's going away right now is specifically the functionality allowing you to pull in messages from another email account, into Gmail, using POP.
I'm not sure it's millions of people, to be honest. But if you're one of those people, note that Google is ending support for this come January 2026. From that point, you'll no longer find an option called "Check mail from other accounts" in your Gmail webmail settings.
Already downloaded email messages won't be deleted from your Gmail account, but you'll lose the ability to download anything new.
Google recommends that you configure the Gmail app for Android, iPhone or iPad to directly query any other accounts that you might have previously accessed using this functionality.
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