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>I'd like to see an enforced separation in law between commercial application providers and storage providers. So, if someone writes an app like Google Docs, th
by deepstack 6y ago
>I'd like to see an enforced separation in law between commercial application providers and storage providers. So, if someone writes an app like Google Docs, they can't just store the data opaquely on their own cloud servers. They legally have to integrate with a separate storage provider. And that storage provider has an obligation to make my data accessible and manageable by me.
Same can be said about gmail. In the old days, one can access gmail via imap/pop3. I believe that was removed. All email ought to provide an alternative way of getting the email other than company's web interface.
- jimktrains2 6y agoI'm still using imap and smtp, unless k9 mail for Android is abstracting something else away?
- dmd 6y agoWhy do you believe that? https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229?hl=en https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229?hl=en
- throwaway135919 6y agoProbably because as described in the linked article IMAP & SMTP is disabled by default - though if you're willing to ignore the scary warnings they're still possible to use.
- Lex-2008 6y ago> In the old days, one can access gmail via imap/pop3 I believe it's still possible. Also IIRC it required some adjustments from mail clients to the "imap as gmail sees it" protocol, like "one message being visible in several folders", since "folders" in imap sense were mapped to "labels" in gmail
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- timw4mail 6y agoGmail still allows imap access, although it requires an app-specific password. (Or it has to be allowed on the enterprise side with G-Suite)