Fw: Email clients have gone crazy

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 17:38 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 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.

You not being able to log in does absolutely nothing to prevent spam. It
might prevent you seeing it, but it won't prevent it from piling up in
your account.

poc