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https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mail/mail35803/mac
I access my email using Mail & Gmail & messages are available to view in both apps.
Also https://pcdots.com/blog/gmail-emails-to-apple-mail/
If I just add fred@bloggs.com as an account in Mac Mail, I think it'll only get the new unread messages from the bloggs.com domain?
My domain is hosted at Siteground, and at the time I set it up, I gave Google (or G-Suite, whatever it was called at the time) the email account's sign-in details.
POP3 is so much a 20th century technology that frustrates email migration & recovery, that I had assumed that everyone was now using IMAP
POP3 effectively downloads the email message to the device that is used to read it, rendering it inaccessible to other devices accessing the account. IMAP allows multiple devices to read messages until they are deleted by the user. Much, much better
Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
There was some alteration of the MX records at the domain host, so those MX records now point to google.com subdomains.
I was young(er!) and naive and followed the Google Workspace instructions at the time. It seemed to make sense when I was making more use of Google Drive and other tools.
In other news, the imapsync site appears to be dead!
Maybe Google's AI is trying to stop me from migrating
Having done that, you can then setup the same Apple Mail account to access all new emails directly from your server, so you've got it all in Apple Mail, albeit within separate folders in Apple Mail.
I *think*
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Like this
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102061
And then change the mail server back to your original host so it's not being held in GoogleWorld any more.
(this assumes you’re happy continuing to pay for the Google workspace account)
If you're looking to ditch Workplaces entirely you will need to first retrieve your email from Google (just connect to it, but make sure you are caching the full mailbox locally otherwise you risk losing items when you kill the service).
Then you will need to arrange a new mail host somewhere else, change the MX at wherever your DNS is hosted (might be Siteground, might be Google, check your nameserver settings - if it's been put into Workplaces you'll also need to move the nameservers somewhere else, likely back to Siteground).
When your NS are off Google and you have a new MX ready, update the MX record, run old server settings for 24 hours them switch your client to the new one.
Properly managed, POP makes migration and management and recovery magnificently easy. Provided only that you are happy with a single master copy of your mail - which for most individual people (as opposed to corporates) is just fine - you can back up, restore, recover, migrate, and reconfigure exactly as you like. You are never, ever, ever beholden to a third party who holds your mail - or (worse!) screws it up. Your mail is never held for any length of time on a remote server not belonging to you, it is never, ever hosted in a foreign country, and no matter what kind of demented arseholes operate your hosting company, the very worst thing that can possibly happen is that you have to switch to a different hosting company, which takes 10 minutes of your time and a day or two to implement. You retain100% of your own data.
It doesn't matter if they screw you over, go broke and out of business, get blown up by a terrorist bomb, change their terms of service such that their system is no longer usable, quadruple their prices, turn out to be hopeless incompetents, go under to a ransomware attack, fail to back up their server and lose your account .... no matter what they do, the worst case is that you sack them, switch to someone better, and possibly lose a single day's worth of messages. Absolute worst case.
POP. You have 100% control over your own mail going back as many decades as you care to retain it. YOU have physical custody of the media. No-one else. Simple, practical, bulletproof data security - no mess, no fuss, no side effects.
Is it stone age technology? Too right it is! It is so stone age that it actually works exactly as designed.
If you’re savvy enough to properly DIY then that’s great, but it’s not the advice I’d give to most people.
If they are not competent to back up their data, they are not competent to own a computer. That is all they need to be able to do: make regular backups. I used to teach people how to do that as routine when they bought a computer. I don't think any of them were incapable of doing that after 10 minutes tuition. (Something I never charged for.) (Well, OK, I can think of two or three who couldn't manage it. But they were the sort who also struggles with shoelaces.)
If they came to me (or any other competent tech) with an intact backup, I could get them up and running again in short order.
And of course, many were perfectly capable of doing that stuff for themselves.
I'm not wedded to POP3, but it was simpler to understand when I was deciding several years ago. FWIW, I do not use my phone/etc to read/write emails, so being locked into a local mail database on a Mac/PC wasn't a problem.