There is a support note, if you can find it. Here’s the link. “Starting January 2026,” Google tells users of the world’s most popular email platform, "Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts through POP. The option to ‘Check mail from other accounts’ will no longer be available in Gmail on your computer."

NEW YORK — Google has made big changes to Gmail, the world’s most popular email service and now more than 2 billion users must decide how they want to use the updated platform. The changes mark one of the biggest shifts in Gmail in more than 20 years.

First up is a new AI overview feature, which will feel familiar to anyone who’s used Google Search lately. Gmail will now summarize long email threads. When a user opens a message chain with dozens of replies, Gmail will generate “a concise summary of key points.” Google says this feature is rolling out today and will be free for all users.

The update also expands Google’s “Help Me Write” tool, which has previously been a premium feature in Gmail but is now being made available to all users. It also gains enhanced tone-matching functionality, Google said, which means it’s capable of mimicking the user’s writing style to make its suggested emails more realistic.