XPost: alt.comp.software.thunderbird   
   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   R.Wieser  wrote:   
   [...]   
      
   > A warning though : I just read that gmail is phasing out POP3 (and thus   
   > likely also SMTP and similar) access to it.   
      
     Well, then we'll just have to re-invent GooglePOPs/GPOPs! :-)   
      
     Explanation: In the old days, free Yahoo! e-mail accounts could not   
   use POP/SMTP, so a proxy named YahooPOPs! (later YPOPS!) was developed,   
   which did POP/SMTP on the e-mail client's side and HTTP on the other   
   side. Of course, like currently with the YouTube downloaders, they had   
   to chase each and every change which Yahoo! made on the web-side, but it   
   worked.   
      
     Later there were back-roads to get POP/SMTP for free Yahoo! e-mail   
   accounts, so I switched to those (and still use them for any e-mail that   
   might arrive in those old accounts).   
      
     BTW, I don't think it's very likely that Gmail will drop POP et al,   
   too many people and organizations depend on it.   
      
     Yes, they might drop POP access or/and non-OAuth2 authentication, but   
   dropping IMAP/SMTP is very unlikely IMO.   
      
     Anyway, do you have a reference for this?   
      
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