>>> "ESF" == Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Monday, 17 Aug 2020 at 17:02, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> Users of academic institutions[1] found them self from one day to the
>> other, with their email accounts transferred to G-Suite (that this the
>> professional Gmail service), without doing anything at all.

> Or to Microsoft's office365 which is bad in similar ways as
> G-Suite.  And gnus, from what I hear, is going to have the same problem
> when they stop IMAP/POP access this autumn (northern hemisphere).

Not necessarily: I posed a message, in which google said it will drop it
plans to stop IMAP/SMTP access for G-Suite accounts, because of
Covid-19. I am not sure what's about the non G-suite accounts.


> I have no idea what solutions may exist or may be possible for
> Office365.