sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Tech@programming.devEnglish · 8 months agoGmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetchingwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10cross-posted to: news@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showgoogle@lemdro.id
arrow-up13arrow-down1external-linkGmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetchingwww.theregister.comsabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Tech@programming.devEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square7linkfedilinkcross-posted to: news@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showgoogle@lemdro.id
minus-squareeleijeep@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months ago No one in their right mind should be doing this anyway Why not?
minus-squaresabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoGoogle are an advertisement company. Their business model is data mining. It should be an inconvenience for them to build a profile on you. Running your third party email via them is the opposite of that.
minus-squareSpikesOtherDog@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoNot sure what op meant, but according to TFA, “POP3 requires sending passwords in plaintext.”
minus-squareeleijeep@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 months agoYes just like HTTP, FTP, SMTP, telnet and all the other pre-TLS protocols that we now run over TLS for exactly this reason. Google, just like every other modern mail client, supports connecting to POP3 servers over SSL:
Why not?
Google are an advertisement company. Their business model is data mining. It should be an inconvenience for them to build a profile on you. Running your third party email via them is the opposite of that.
Not sure what op meant, but according to TFA, “POP3 requires sending passwords in plaintext.”
Yes just like HTTP, FTP, SMTP, telnet and all the other pre-TLS protocols that we now run over TLS for exactly this reason.
Google, just like every other modern mail client, supports connecting to POP3 servers over SSL: