[BeetleB]

> I've been doing this for years

Downloading email via POP or IMAP? Ever since I started using email in the 90's. I never deviated from it. In the old days, even the free mail hosts gave you POP access.

My own domain? Doing it for over 20 years.

[marssaxman]

Yep, pretty much the same story here. The only (relatively) recent innovation is the bit where mail sent to [e-mail] lands in a folder called "foo", so I neither have to sort out a messy inbox nor check many accounts individually.

[bigwheels]

As of last week, Google is on-track to discontinue POP-polling functionality. I've been using this for about 20 years, not sure what to do. What a pain.

Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP (support.google.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45439670 - 6 days ago, 372 comments

[pessimizer]

This is alarming if you just skim the headline (which I did, and was slightly alarmed), but it is about having gmail download from third-party accounts, not downloading emails from gmail. I don't think many people do this anyway, but I'm sure it was very convenient for some.