The google graveyard gets a new service that has been killed and this time it is one I have been actively using for a long time.
I am an active fan of Gmail as an OS app and a webservice and have preferred all my emails to be served by this so I have been using the pop support to import emails from other services and the advantage is that they are stored in my Google One subscription storage a few TB its been working flawlessly for months.
I used a taper monkey script by Daniel Slaughter to pull them in often after all for $5 it was worth it and its worked flawlessly on multiple accounts for quite sometime. The emails where provided by MXroute or NameCrane and it just worked.
Entre the Grim Reaper
Google have now decided that come January 2026 they wll be killing of Gmailify and the check mail form other accounts using POP will no longer be supprted. You can view there announcement here: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/16604719?hl=en
So its either switch to IMAP on Gmail apps (which doesn’t benefit with the send as functionality i use extensively) or no longer will it work for MXroute particularly I can’t use my google one subscription storage which means I would need a much larger plan for these email accounts
It’s it hard but thankfully not to hard!
Now as luck would have it I have been using EM Client for a while now as a free licence which i upgraded to lifetime comes with NameCrane’s new email service. I have been extensively testing and using this for business emails across my portfolio and have heavily invested in several TB of storage with them and there lifetime offers.
I have been testing this on IOS and Windows Desktop and its been going well, so with a few smaller purchased account for each type of business one with 500gb and one with 250gb of storage for about half a dozen domains in total I have a reliable email service and an app that seems to work for it.
Now I am not going to stand here and say this doesn’t concern me, I have used this service for so long, written client and other guides on how do use this pop retrieval service and I’ve used it extensively for years. I am just glad that thanks to my passion for testing things and understanding new products and services I had a option.
For client email I tend to use 20i reseller account through Nakamhost where I have an account to offer hosting and email for most use cases for business critical I have Name crane and MX route available.
BlackFriday chances?
While I don’t expect Namecrane to have a black Friday discount on emails, MXroute may and other hosts may take the opportunity to offer there services at a discount with enough notice you may be able to pick up a bargain.
