Fw: Email clients have gone crazy

[Bill Davidsen]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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.
>
If the old access were not working it would totally prevent spam, since I 
haven't converted the cell at this point, and would not get logged in. That's 
how I know they haven't actually done anything yet.

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