I was using "Check mail from other accounts" to pull from 3 custom domain accounts into a single Gmail inbox. Tried auto-forwarding first. Within two weeks, my emails were landing in spam because the forwarding was tanking my sender reputation (it forwards the spam too). The Gmail mobile IMAP option is mobile-only with separate inboxes, so that was a non-starter.

I ended up building a hosted POP/IMAP bridge that does what Gmail used to do: logs into your external accounts on a schedule, fetches new messages, and forwards them to Gmail via SMTP with proper SPF/DKIM alignment. The key difference from auto-forwarding is pull vs. push. Spam stays on the external server instead of getting forwarded into Gmail.

It's at https://mailbridge.app. Currently collecting waitlist signups, polishing the MVP now. Happy to answer questions about the technical approach (credential encryption, deduplication, deliverability, etc).

Think alot would be changing to forwarding if they want to maintain a similar setup.

Some previous discussion with mentions of that:

Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45439670

Came across https://postdirect.net/mailbox, and it just works.

Best part for me is that it only needs write access to Gmail, so I'm not handing it the keys to my Google data.