Google Introduces Verified Email via Credential Manager

Android is reducing app onboarding friction with a new, native "one-tap" email verification experience, eliminating the need for traditional, high-friction OTP systems. By leveraging the W3C Digital Credential API via Credential Manager, this approach offers a more secure and streamlined alternative to legacy methods.

If you use Gmailify or Gmail's "Check mail from other accounts" – this affects you.   Google announced it's shutting both features down. Deprecation started in January 2026, and full discontinuation is coming later this year. For anyone who relied on Gmail as a central hub for multiple email accounts, that's a real disruption.   The good news: eM Client is one of the clearest alternatives out there. It connects directly to your mail server, keeps all your accounts in one place and preserves the Gmail experience you're used to including labels, threading and inbox categories.   No middleman. No vendor lock-in. Just your email, working the way it should. 💡   We put together a full breakdown of what's changing and how to keep your workflow intact. Link in the comments 👇   #eMClient #Gmailify #EmailClient #Gmail #Productivity

"...Email clients let you send, receive, and organize emails by connecting to your provider’s mail server directly using protocols like IMAP, Exchange, or POP3 to access email accounts. Desktop email clients also offer additional features to help manage inboxes across multiple accounts from different providers, and the incoming messages remain in their original form, including their headers. On top of that, many apps allow local email management and archiving, so you’re in control of your data.

💻 Tech History: On April 1, 2004, Google launched its email service Gmail. Introduced with 1 GB of storage, significantly more than competing services at the time, Gmail redefined web-based email with features such as fast search, threaded conversations, and a clean interface, quickly becoming one of the most widely used email platforms in the world. 💻 #TechHistory #Gmail #OnThisDay HaJunk - Business Development

An automated system suspended 60+ accounts from a legitimate company overnight. The appeal process is a Google Form. This is why you build for your email list first and everything else second. Platforms make decisions. They don't always explain them. Your list is the only thing that survives that.

We are playing around with Cloudflare Email, and honestly, this one stopped me mid-scroll. Email!! but not the way we have known it. Not SMTP configs, not juggling API keys like with SendGrid or Resend, just…native email inside Workers. We spun up a quick test, and within minutes, our little agent was receiving emails, pulling data from an external API, thinking (yes, literally pausing and processing for ~20 minutes), and replying back like a human assistant. No glue code. No orchestration mess. What hit me was not its pricing ($5/month + 3k emails is wild), but the shift in who email is for. This is not built for marketers or lifecycle teams, it isbuilt for agents that live inside workflows. Imagine a support inbox where every incoming email is triaged, enriched, researched, and answered, without ever leaving your infra. That is a different game. We even tried the open-sourced “Agentic Inbox” Thomas Gauvin dropped and it felt less like an inbox, more like a command center. But here is what I keep thinking about: if email becomes just another function call inside infra, what happens to everything we obsess over today: deliverability hacks, ESP dependencies, even “campaigns”? Feels like we are slowly moving from “sending emails” to “building systems that happen to communicate via email.” And…thats a massive shift.

Your Gmail ID Might Finally Be Changeable . Stuck with an old email ID you made years ago? That might soon change. . . Google is working on a feature that could allow users to update their Gmail address without creating a new account. . . A simple update but one that can make a big difference in everyday use. . . [Gmail update, Google update, email change feature, tech news, digital update, Google features, email management, tech trends, online identity, corporate tools] . . #GmailUpdate #GoogleUpdate #News

Your Gmail ID Might Finally Be Changeable . Stuck with an old email ID you made years ago? That might soon change. . . Google is working on a feature that could allow users to update their Gmail address without creating a new account. . . A simple update but one that can make a big difference in everyday use. . . [Gmail update, Google update, email change feature, tech news, digital update, Google features, email management, tech trends, online identity, corporate tools] . . #GmailUpdate #GoogleUpdate #News

We shipped Gmail integration this week and I did what anyone would do. I pointed it at my own inbox on a Friday afternoon. For research purposes. 38 out of 47 messages were sales sequences and AI written pitches that made it past every filter Google has. The kind that open with "I noticed your background in..." and close with "quick 15 minute call next week?" They look personal. They are not. And they all picked Friday afternoon, which tells you everything about how automated they are. Paciva caught all 38. Showed me why it flagged each one. And the 9 messages from actual humans landed like they always do, completely untouched. The hardest junk is not the obvious scam. It is the pitch that looks like it was written just for you. Enjoy your weekend. Your inbox can too. Early access is open and Founding Pass spots are going. Link on the Paciva page. #Founder #StartupFounder #BuildInPublic #EmailOverload #Graymail #SalesAutomation #AIStartup #PacivaAI #LessNoiseMoreSignal #FounderLife #ProductLaunch

Over the last few months, I’ve looked at dozens of cold email setups. Almost all of them had the same problem. They think their copy is bad. It’s not. They’re running 50–300 Google Workspace inboxes with zero infrastructure behind it. No domain strategy. No warm-up logic. No deliverability planning. And then they say “cold email doesn’t work.” Cold email isn’t broken. Your setup is. Fix the backend first. #Reachoutly #InboxSystem