Today in "Google broke email"
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I have just learned that, beginning in 3 days, my employees will no longer be able to receive their work email. Apparently Google is dropping support for Gmail accounts being able to fetch mail from outside accounts. At all. And they announced this change less than 60 days ago. (The announcement was in the basement, stairs, leopard, etc.) What I want to accomplish is simple: When email ...
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  • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
    3 months

    getting rid of that shitty insecure protocol that SENDS YOUR CREDS OVER THE WIRE IN PLAIN TEXT.

    GMail has supported POP3 over SSL for a while now.

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      That’s moderately better, but that’s just slapping a bandaid on an open wound. POP is still a garbage protocol that should be depreciated, even when you wrap it in SSL.

      • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
        3 months

        Why is it a garbage protocol? POP3 performs perfectly well for its intended use-case: as a mail-spooling protocol. If you want a multi-client mailbox protocol then use IMAP instead.