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A comment on Jeff Atwood's security blunder regarding email. Parent comment

Re:Jeff Atwood's security blunder regarding email by quonn on Monday April 30, 2012 @06:00AM (#3908626)
This is outgoing SMTP. It does not require it for _incoming_ SMTP.
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Re:Jeff Atwood's security blunder regarding email by tantalor on Monday April 30, 2012 @12:44PM (#3910008)
Gmail recommends (or requires) SSL for both IMAP[1] and POP[2].

[1] http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe... [2] https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...

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