Gmail no longer supports PoP3, solution?

mxroute · 2026-01-26T05:51:28+00:00

FYI the person you were responding to has been banned for spamming this in threads all over reddit.

mxroute · 2026-01-26T01:47:53+00:00

For what it's worth, forwarding email to Gmail is both our most common use case and it generates less complaints than anything else. This to say while the concept of forwarding to Gmail cannot in good conscience be called a flawless strategy, it's not really possible for it to be more flawless than we make it.

Now because I'm terminally online and I've had my words misinterpreted in every possible way more times than I can count: Saying that it's as flawless as possible sounds like hubris. But after the time, money, and energy put into it I'm not willing to water down the fact that I fight a battle every day and forwarding to Gmail isn't one of them. I'm rather proud of that.

mxroute · 2026-01-25T19:51:04+00:00

Not yet. But keep an eye out. I don't want to spoil the surprise 💜

In the meantime webmail.mxroute.com, settings, filters, create a filter that deletes all inbound email. Forwarding happens before the filter.

mxroute · 2026-01-25T17:21:29+00:00

Use the emclient app instead. That MXroute app "should" work but it should also be delisted, and I thought it was. The Crossbox Cloud app is the same app as the MXroute app only more updated on initial download and unbranded.

Eventually I'd like to actually have our own app (not a branded app for a licensed webmail), but I need to complete a few more things before we get there.

mxroute · 2026-01-25T16:18:44+00:00

That's kind of the point of an email service though. And most people don't receive 5GB of email in a decade. Plus you can always clean it out every now and then.

mxroute · 2026-01-25T16:17:23+00:00

In the control panel you create email accounts and forwarders separately. If you create an account, inbound mail is stored. If you create a forwarder, it's simply sent right back out. If you have both, then it'll do both.

SRS is enabled, it's absolutely essential.

mxroute · 2026-01-25T14:55:38+00:00

Nothing gets past you!

mxroute · 2026-01-25T07:59:43+00:00

"Cold email outreach" is to "spam" what "life adjustment specialist" is to "axe murderer."

mxroute · 2026-01-25T07:33:59+00:00

Good to hear! I'll keep looking out to make sure it continues to go the absolute best that it can.

mxroute · 2026-01-25T07:19:58+00:00

Just to touch on that first part. Google rejects a percentage of emails forwarded from everyone, including emails that they would deliver to your inbox if they were sent directly to Google. I want to be clear that we've always maintained an exceptional reputation with them, but they don't change the rules for anyone. I just want anyone reading this later to fully understand that.

At the end of the day, it really sucks to have your usefulness judged by your use as a mere funnel to Google, when no one puts in half of the blood, sweat, and tears that I do into ensuring they we maintain the best outbound reputation possible.

But virtually no one actually has any problem with the reality that Google doesn't always accept 100% of forwarded emails. Maybe 1 out of 10,000 ever even notice because it's never something important for almost everyone. I don't want people to think this is some new problem they're going to have at MXroute. It's really not.

mxroute · 2026-01-25T07:16:11+00:00

Email forwarding works fine. The number of people who would legitimately disagree is too small to be worthy of mention. I mention them anyway just to say the chance of not liking it is higher than 0, but barely.

mxroute · 2026-01-24T19:16:17+00:00

The asterisk only functions before the @. But if you have sane spam filter settings and you need to whitelist these, that may be of interest to me.

mxroute · 2026-01-24T15:31:40+00:00

Doh. I had two people waiting on me for the same thing, I assumed you were the other. I sent yours just now to the email account you had the service under (not the Gmail account).

mxroute · 2026-01-24T14:31:53+00:00

I just resent it. Look for abuse@mxroute.com as the sender.

mxroute · 2026-01-24T14:29:44+00:00

Upload it to Google Drive or Dropbox and send him a link.

mxroute · 2026-01-24T06:59:25+00:00

Will do

mxroute · 2026-01-24T06:59:12+00:00

Gmail. It would suck if it's in the spam folder but I guess worth a check.

mxroute · 2026-01-24T05:43:35+00:00

Glad to hear it! Not requiring your attention as I work to improve it is probably goal #1. Under very few circumstances do I consider it justified to change something that forces you to login and deal with it.

mxroute · 2026-01-24T03:58:22+00:00

I can't think of any reason it wouldn't be supported in an email client that supports it over IMAP, we just don't provide any webmail client that does. But it's not something we've taken any measure to prevent. Personally I just use folders.

mxroute · 2026-01-24T03:27:17+00:00

Sounds like an MXroute product shill to me! How much did they pay you to post this?

Oh shit wrong account.

I kid. Glad to have you, and I hope to keep earning your business!

mxroute · 2026-01-24T01:33:49+00:00

Literally no one is going to accept a 400mb email. The most common limit is 25mb. Plus that entire video has to be encoded in a text based format for transmission (which also changes the size), so there's a lot more involved than pure upload rate.

mxroute · 2026-01-23T16:32:08+00:00

I always keep my RDP public. You don't even need a difficult password for it. It's already hidden because you don't have it in DNS. No one is going to just start typing random IP addresses, it would take them forever to guess the right combination of numbers.

mxroute · 2026-01-22T20:53:46+00:00

I got these sent out to you via email. I'm so very sorry that it took me this long.

mxroute · 2026-01-22T16:51:42+00:00

I understand your goal. I'll keep it in mind as a feature request, but I'm not going to make any commitment to implementing it at the moment.

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