Re:Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
by 10729287 on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @12:48PM
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If your concern is just having access to your emails if someday shit hits the fan and you’re locked out, why no smtp ? Seems easier.
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SMTP is to send mail and that's how I send it from my laptop and from my phone. POP3 is to read from a mailbox.
Or imap !
IMAP usually means that mail is stored on the provider server even if one can download and delete. Furthermore POP3 is a trivial protocol that could be operated via telnet before everybody went TLS.
The real reason I'm still using POP3 is that I'm using the mailboxes that are bundled with my domains. One on the registrars announced IMAP support a few days ago. All the others are still on POP3 probably because POP3 servers have been available since forever.