[Coco] internet access

[Johann Klasek]

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 01:49:18PM -0500, Allen Huffman wrote:
> On May 25, 2014, at 4:15 PM, keithclark1966 at gmail.com wrote:
[..]
> For e-mail, straight POP/SMTP mail is doable, but today everything seems to be IMAP and POP is considered unsafe to use (?). Still, if support for POP/SMTP is there, it would be possible.

Why is POP3 unsafe? In conjunction with STARTTLS you are as safe as IMAP
with STARTTLS is. ;) (besides basic failures, e.g. to allow plain
authentication schemes without encryption...)
The causes for POP3 disappearing are simply protocol and implementation
issues: POP3 doesn't support folders, header snooping, servers often have
problems to behave properly with multiple parallel sessions and so on.