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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al [S] 5 points 9 months ago

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.

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[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

Not sure what op meant, but according to TFA, "POP3 requires sending passwords in plaintext."

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[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

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:

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[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 2 points 9 months ago

You are right. I seem to recall viewing these settings about 100 years ago.

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[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

It sounds remarkably janky, and a bit of an unusual edge case. Why would someone need this specific pattern?

Eventually this is the sort of thing that isn't worth supporting.

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[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I used to do it back when gmail first started, I connected it to my previous email account so anything addressed to my old account would get transferred to my new one.

I could probably count the number of emails it ever retrieved on one hand.

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[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

That is still an edge case, and doesn't really address why Pop would be required.

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[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 1 point 9 months ago

That's the point of the feature though. POP3 moves emails, it's really a transfer protocol rather than an access protocol.

I assume Google is killing it since they assume they're effectively in-charge of email outside of things like company Outlook accounts. They've got no need to worry about people migrating to gmail, since everybody starts out on it now.