Fw: Email clients have gone crazy
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sun Apr 21 03:27:02 UTC 2013
On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 20:27 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> A number of ISP mail services have had issues lately, Verizon "for
> security" changed to clear text for login and password exchange. Read
> that sentence again, yes they did. They also are threatening to
> disable POP3 and require use of POP3s (SSL secured), but I don't think
> that has happened yet, I still get spam in my VZmail on my cell.
Control of spam and control of email privacy/authentication are two
different things. Using SSL won't in itself do anything to prevent spam.
poc
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