Justin MasonOh crap. Gmail is deprecating support for picking up mail from a remote server using POP3 polling in January 😠Given that I switched to this mode due to reliability problems with direct delivery via mail forwarding, this really sucks...
Nelson Minar@jmason Good god why would they turn that off.
Dan Sugalski@nelson @jmason Because the code is getting old, it's a massive pain in the ass to keep running, and more and more remote servers have... questionable POP services.
Basically it's a lot of neverending support work on the back end with (frankly because of C-suite level bad decisions on staffing) fewer resources available to continue producing a neverending stream of band-aids.
jwz@wordshaper @nelson @jmason "Because some people might be using this feature insecurely, we are removing the feature entirely without providing any alternative, secure or otherwise" is, while not a *surprising* move by Google, still a *deeply infuriating* one. https://mastodon.social/@jwz/115804789003343393
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