Important news for Gmail power users: Google is dropping the feature whereby Gmail can collect mail from other email accounts over POP3.

The company hasn't exactly gone out of its way to call attention to this – like actually telling anybody anything. The news appears in a support note with a sign on the door saying "Learn about upcoming changes to Gmailify & POP in Gmail." The article itself is less euphemistic than its title: //

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Still working for me?
Importing from POP is still working for me. It did, however, stop just before Christmas and I had to change the settings on gMail to use TLS.

So it seems like they're stopping plain text authorisation for POP rather than ALL POP mail retrieval.