[Users] idea: Use IMAP for email removal

Nikita Zlobin nick87720z at gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 13:40:33 CEST 2020


A week or so ago I discovered, that yandex undermines mail removal via
pop3. By simply not removing them. I never used it, but due to user
confused with passwords (tried to use older instead of what I
assigned), I did, while searching aimlessly, discover this. Some yandex
people tried to defend it by user care - like it's "feature" of data
backup for case if user suddenly loses own local data (lol, they even
pose like pop3 is less secure than IMAP). But as they say, removal via
IMAP is no problem. It may look like just last ditch dirty methods in
order to be able to have access to all users email.

But instead of trying to beat anti-shock doors, I think more about
workarounds: first idea was to have two clients, one for IMAP and one
for POP3. One with POP3 should not remove email. And one with IMAP
should be used for removal (they even could have different local mail
dirs).

But would be more convenient if client itself proposed feature of
temporary IMAP connection in order to remove mail (or even simulate
some less dump activity to not reveal maps too quickly).


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