topic When trying to merge my Sky emails with gmail I get error message in Email https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Email/When-trying-to-merge-my-Sky-emails-with-gmail-I-get-error-message/m-p/4059940#M90089 <P>How do I merge my Sky emails with gmail which is my new email address? I get the message that " there was a problem connecting to pop.tools.Sky.com</P> Wed, 27 Jul 2022 11:45:38 GMT rubybear 2022-07-27T11:45:38Z When trying to merge my Sky emails with gmail I get error message https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Email/When-trying-to-merge-my-Sky-emails-with-gmail-I-get-error-message/m-p/4059940#M90089 <P>How do I merge my Sky emails with gmail which is my new email address? I get the message that " there was a problem connecting to pop.tools.Sky.com</P> Wed, 27 Jul 2022 11:45:38 GMT https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Email/When-trying-to-merge-my-Sky-emails-with-gmail-I-get-error-message/m-p/4059940#M90089 rubybear 2022-07-27T11:45:38Z Re: When trying to merge my Sky emails with gmail I get error message https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Email/When-trying-to-merge-my-Sky-emails-with-gmail-I-get-error-message/m-p/4060185#M90090 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3608620">@rubybear</a>&nbsp;wrote:<BR /><P>How do I merge my Sky emails with gmail which is my new email address? I get the message that " there was a problem connecting to pop.tools.Sky.com</P><HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I think you need to use <STRONG>pop.mail.yahoo.com</STRONG> because Sky moved their&nbsp; email service over to Yahoo! many years ago.</P> Wed, 27 Jul 2022 15:54:20 GMT https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Email/When-trying-to-merge-my-Sky-emails-with-gmail-I-get-error-message/m-p/4060185#M90090 simon194 2022-07-27T15:54:20Z Re: When trying to merge my Sky emails with gmail I get error message https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Email/When-trying-to-merge-my-Sky-emails-with-gmail-I-get-error-message/m-p/4060216#M90091 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/339">@simon194</a>&nbsp;wrote:<BR /> <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3608620">@rubybear</a>&nbsp;wrote:<BR /> <P>How do I merge my Sky emails with gmail which is my new email address? I get the message that " there was a problem connecting to pop.tools.Sky.com</P> <HR /></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>I think you need to use <STRONG>pop.mail.yahoo.com</STRONG> because Sky moved their&nbsp; email service over to Yahoo! many years ago.</P> <HR /></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Sky still list pop.tools.sky.com in the instructions <A href="https://www.sky.com/help/articles/getting-started-with-sky-yahoo-mail#need-a-hand" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</A>.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I wonder if the issue might be that Gmail really doesn't like POP anyway, and has to <A href="https://support.google.com/mail/answer/21289" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have its own setting changed</A>.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:28:34 GMT https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Email/When-trying-to-merge-my-Sky-emails-with-gmail-I-get-error-message/m-p/4060216#M90091 TimmyBGood 2022-07-27T16:28:34Z Re: When trying to merge my Sky emails with gmail I get error message https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Email/When-trying-to-merge-my-Sky-emails-with-gmail-I-get-error-message/m-p/4060238#M90092 <P>It's because Gmail is acting as an app when fetching&nbsp;emails from Sky via POP, therefore it needs to use a generated app password.&nbsp;<A href="https://www.sky.com/sky-yahoo-mail/manage-apps" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.sky.com/sky-yahoo-mail/manage-apps</A></P><P>You can use either Sky or Yahoo POP servers.</P> Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:54:21 GMT https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Email/When-trying-to-merge-my-Sky-emails-with-gmail-I-get-error-message/m-p/4060238#M90092 jayach 2022-07-27T16:54:21Z