When trying to merge my Sky emails with gmail I get error message

[rubybear]

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

[simon194]

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@rubybear wrote:

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

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I think you need to use pop.mail.yahoo.com because Sky moved their  email service over to Yahoo! many years ago.

[TimmyBGood]

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@simon194 wrote:

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@rubybear wrote:

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

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I think you need to use pop.mail.yahoo.com because Sky moved their  email service over to Yahoo! many years ago.

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Sky still list pop.tools.sky.com in the instructions here.

I wonder if the issue might be that Gmail really doesn't like POP anyway, and has to have its own setting changed.

[jayach]

It's because Gmail is acting as an app when fetching emails from Sky via POP, therefore it needs to use a generated app password. https://www.sky.com/sky-yahoo-mail/manage-apps

You can use either Sky or Yahoo POP servers.