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by ThoAppelsin 2685 days ago
I am clearly blaming Gmail for discontinuing IMAP support, which seems to me clearly as a foul practice of abusing dominance over the market via introduction of non-standard ways, while also halting support for the standards. They would perish if they were to do this as a small company, and make benefit out of it by "pushing" their products as a bundle, just because a sizeable amount of people are dependent on their services.
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opless 2685 days ago
When did this happen?

I have things still happily using IMAP, in fact gmail on my iPhone is still showing IMAP-like folders, further more the gmail help still shows the IMAP configuration procedure[1].

[1]. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229?hl=en

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smt88 2685 days ago
Sorry, you are absolutely right. Gmail supports IMAP as a server.

Email discontinued support for importing emails from IMAP sources in Gmail itself. That's what I was thinking of.

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smt88 2685 days ago
Sorry, turns out it's 100% Apple's fault.

Why not use a third-party mail client?

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