On Sun, 8 May 2022, Hans-Martin Mosner via mailop wrote:
Am 08.05.22 um 15:27 schrieb Scott Mutter via mailop:
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?
This is assuming that the POP password is different from the SMTP auth
password (which for most account it isn't).
So if you give Google your POP password you also enable them to send mail
through your mail account. They most likely wouldn't care and would not be
using that option, but I would not like it anyway.
In addition, when you're using legacy mail (read UN*X) systems your mail
account and login credentials may be the same. I know that's nowadays
considered malpractice, but it still happens.
And Brandon just said (IIUC) that GMail POP collection doesn't (yet)
support OAUTH2, so one of the sensible ways of making them different
is not available. If your organisation has single sign on that may
mean that google has access to your file server :-(
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Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
and...@aitchison.me.uk
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