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Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] eleijeep@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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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[โ€“] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 2 points 1 week ago

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