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On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 18:34:25 -0700 walt wrote: |
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> Very soon after being invited to open a gmail account, I discovered |
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> that google offers non-web-browser access to their free (as in beer) |
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> email servers. |
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> This puzzled me (still does) because it seems to violate google's basic |
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> business model, which is based on advertising revenue. (I never see an |
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> advertisement when sending/reading email via smtp/imap, obviously.) |
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1. Even with pop3/gmail users occasionally use web interface: |
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a) When travelling and location/country is changed, Google denies |
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pop3/smtp login saying "web access required". After web login |
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(possibly with two-factor auth) user needs to confirm new location. |
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b) In order to delete occasional spam messages as spam. |
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c) In order to look through spam folder and retrieve |
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false-positives. Unfortunately this happens sometimes. |
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2. Users are paying for services not only by reading ads, but with |
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their private data: contents of their e-mails, various profiles, |
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Google+ data and so on. |
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> Google has just introduced a 120-second delay before allowing login to |
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> their email servers. Just in the last day or two, literally. |
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> I can understand the delay for sending email (spammers) but why the |
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> same delay for reading email? |
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I use POP3 and SMTP for gmail daily, no delays here. Maybe your ISP |
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is doing something: either bug, or MitM or some other nasty things. |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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