When accessing email via a protocol with an email client, sure, but I primarily had the Gmail web app in mind when I wrote the comment. I also touched on protoc

When accessing email via a protocol with an email client, sure, but I primarily had the Gmail web app in mind when I wrote the comment. I also touched on protocols in another comment. With what I had in mind, if you logged into my Gmail account, which provides both sending and receiving, you could impersonate me to my own mother, but I would have nothing to hide as I don't receive any sensitive information via email (privacy). However, accounts elsewhere could be recovered via my email, and thus be used to impersonate me elsewhere (security).