# POP3 polling error

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/pop3-polling-error/87394
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 14, 2018, 2:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pop3-polling-error/87394 "2018-05-14T02:03:56Z")
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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pop3-polling-error/87394/4 "2018-05-14T18:52:27Z")

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> [@thisnthat](#):
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> I will be contacting google as well since this is a gmail account.

If it’s a regular Gmail account then using it to deliver Discourse email is a violation of Google’s terms. I think it should work for G-Suite, however.

You’ll almost certainly be better off with a service like Mailgun.

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