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Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching
(www.theregister.com)
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That is still an edge case, and doesn't really address why Pop would be required.
That's the point of the feature though. POP3 moves emails, it's really a transfer protocol rather than an access protocol.
I assume Google is killing it since they assume they're effectively in-charge of email outside of things like company Outlook accounts. They've got no need to worry about people migrating to gmail, since everybody starts out on it now.