Google is killing the POP Checkmail feature in Gmail
 

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/16604719?hl=en

Learn about changes to POP connections
Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts through POP.
The option to "Check mail from other accounts" will no longer be available in Gmail on your computer.

Really bad news! How did you learn about this? I use both POP and Gmailify and have not received any information direct from Google about this. But, it appears you can still add IMAP accounts, which should work for most.

This will affect Gomailify, that partially depends on POP3 retrieval by Gmail.

I use Gomailify too! This little change will be a big pain for me personally. I wonder why they are doing it? This also points out one of the problems with using multiple different email accounts. Some will now say use something like Thunderbird to consolidate all on the desktop, which I may do, but I do prefer having it all online so I do not depend on a local machine. In my personal experience with multiple catastrophic computer failures, your local machines are the least reliable part of our digital lives. Plus, I move around a lot.

My local machines have the worst sys admin I know ...

So many use laptops as their main or only PC these days, and with many of them they are essentially unrepairable. If something breaks you can lose everything on the machine. I recently recycled a box of failed and old laptops at Staples. I had forgotten how many old laptops I had hanging around!

All the important data I have on my laptop I sync to portable storage regularly. The same folders now are also synced to Pcloud, and the folders that are related to my work in the Open University are also synced to my office desktop and to a network drive at the university, so I have now 5 copies of my work stuff, one in a different continent, one always in my pocket, and two of the four located about 30 miles apart. I try not to keep anything important on my phone, because phones tend to become inaccessible when the screen breaks, or when the USB port contacts wear out, which happens when they are a few months after warranty, be cause they are built to not last much longer.

Sounds like you are well covered except for the circumstance I have experienced where the laptop dies in between regular backups! Yes, most stuff will still be available on old backups, but you do lose current work. And, then there is the problem of restoring from backups, which I have found not to be seemless, to say the least. Much easier to just be able to login to my main Gmail account from any computer and have everything all there, no matter what happens to the local machines.

If we exclude Russian email services Mail.ru and Yandex (connectivity is partially blocked because of Russian censorship, allso, the featch of Yandex is not reliable), I know only two email services (both paid) that still have this functionality: Runbox and Fastmail

I migrated my POP3 Fetch to Runbox and created the rules that redirect fetched emails into my Gmail mailbox.

I use Gmailify to sync my main Gmail account to another account to create a backup, and Gomailify (Gmailify and Gomailify are different) to receive and send my domain emails. I'm assuming you'll be able to link two Gmail accounts via IMAP in the future via Gmail on the web, but not sure. Or, do you have to combine accounts in the Gmail app on your phone and then they will also appear on desktop? Seems like they need to send out a detailed explanation to all Gmail users of POP and Gmailify.

Gmailify is only for pre-defined services and you can't create more than one Gmailify record

Also, Google issues warning that starting from Jan 2025 Gmailify functionality will be limited (no filters, no search etc.)

Gomailify is irrelevant in jy case, I am fetching emails from regular email services.

I use it too. I emailed them about it and this is what they said "We'll replace that part with our own, simpler feature before they switch it off".

No idea how can they replace POP Gmail. I do get spam notices in Gomailify logs but are legit emails. So Gmail would pull the emails thru POP.

Any alternative solution /provider?

thunderbird.

I still haven't received notification from Google about this change and I continue to use POP3 with Gomailify. If they don't notify anyone there will be lots of lost emails in January.

Email solution sir. Free or affordable.

I have not receive any notification either. I use POP3 to get my email from Gmail using Claws Mail.

gmail stop pop? no. i don't think so.
gmail just won't fetch email from other mailbox via pop protocol.

That is my thoughts as well.

Read the information at the link in the first post.

I did, this is my take on it.
I use a third party client (Claws Mail) I don't use POP within Gmail.

Until I am sent a noticification from Gmail that POP3 protocol will no longer be supported or until I find out in January of 2026 I will stick with POP3.

Yes, this is about using POP from Gmail to check mail on other accounts. Not sure if there will be any changes to POP access the other way. Also, Gmailify for checking mail from other accounts will be going away.

POP3 (direct access to Gmail) is not deprecated.

POP Fetcher is deprecated for business accounts of Google Worksapce.

Private users of Gmail did not receive this warning and it is not clear if POP Fetcher will continue to work for them.

In case it stops forking, I can use my account at mailbox.org or zoho.com to collect emails from other pop accounts and will forward all collected emails to any email address I want.

The Gmail help article indicates that POP Checkmail is ending for all Gmail users, including private free ones. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/16604719?hl=en

Why would Google email none paying customers a warning?

Because they always did it in the past.

Also, I am a paying cusomer (2 TB storage).

I was wrong: Zoho and mailbox.org do not support POP Fetch as Google. They actually do not support it at all.

Possible solutions:

Runbox (around $30/year): supports Pop Fetch, but its UI is ugly, rules are not robust and can be used for one or two POP3 account fetches. Otherwise, it becomes too complicate to maintain.

Fastmail ($60/year): supports IMAP fetch (not POP3), robust rules/filters. It may not work with some Gmail IMAP accounts with tens of thousands messages.

Inbox.lv (Latvia, free): supports POP3 and IMAP4 fetch but blocked by Google from OAUTH authentication ("not secure app"), only two external POP3 accounts allowed.

I created Fastmail account, 5 fetched accounts added, everything works.

Forward your Gmail
 

Forward your Gmail to a service that supports it.
Easy fix.