If you forward your mail to Google then Google is going to get your email. If you give Google your POP password to retrieve mail, then Google is going to get your email.
What more is Google going to get with your POP password versus plain old forwarding email? On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 6:00 AM Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > > Dnia 6.05.2022 o godz. 14:41:49 John Levine via mailop pisze: > > > > Until then, I tell people who ask me to forward mail to Gmail that if > > they actually want to get the mail, I'll put it in a local mailbox and > > they can tell Gmail to poll it with POP. That works quite well. > > As I already noted, by doing this you are giving Google the credentials to > your mail account. This is a bad idea. > -- > Regards, > Jaroslaw Rafa > r...@rafa.eu.org > -- > "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there > was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub." > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop