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Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching
(www.theregister.com)
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this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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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:
You are right. I seem to recall viewing these settings about 100 years ago.