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The Register <[email protected]> wrote:
    > ## Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching
    > It's January 2026, and Google is finding innovative new ways to make
    > one of its services worse
    > https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/gmail_dropping_pop3/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article

}  Important news for Gmail power users: Google is dropping the feature
}  whereby Gmail can collect mail from other email accounts over POP3.

It took me three reads to get that this is not about collecting my (from) gmail, but
about using my gmail to collect from elsewhere.  Which I mostly never do.
I have waffled back and forth between:
  fetchmail --proto POP3 --mda "/home/mcr/bin/rcvstore -sequence gmail +inbox" pop.gmail.com

and:
  inc -initialtls -host pop.gmail.com -user [email protected] -port pop3s
       -sasl -saslmech xoauth2 -authservice gmail

I can't remember why I keep going back to fetchmail.
I would love if xoauth2 mechanism would become ubiquitous, or if supporting
client-side certificates for authenticatio was better.  Not just an nmh problem.

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