Use Gmail for Third-Party Email? POP3 Support Is Ending

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Google is making a change to Gmail that could disrupt your access to third-party email services if you rely on the POP3 protocol.

In a support page, the company announced that Gmail will stop supporting POP (Post Office Protocol), which lets email programs access a third-party mail server.  

“Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts through POP,” the company wrote. The…