SpikesOtherDog comments on Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching

submitted 9 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/tech@programming.dev

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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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