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Re:Mailbox.org discovers unencrypted password transmission i... by Dalton9 on Sunday May 07, 2023 @02:38AM (#35848512)
Mail polling doesn't require accuracy. The OS won't delay your polling timer more than 10 minutes in the most aggressive cases, which is perfectly fine.

I'm sure the third party you share your email just to get push notifications with isn't monitoring your mailbox to the second either...

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Re:Mailbox.org discovers unencrypted password transmission i... by db48x on Sunday May 07, 2023 @03:04AM (#35848699)
They probably are. If they connect via IMAP, they can use the IDLE and/or the NOTIFICATION command to get notifications of new messages arriving. This is generally as prompt as it gets; the server doesn’t wait much before sending the notifications.
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