Is my pop3 email security enough for a simple home user?

Wade Smart wadesmart at gmail.com
Tue Nov 5 14:57:50 UTC 2019


I used Evolution for a short time but had problems and moved to Thunderbird.

However, and this is pretty darn old info - you could try this:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingGmailWithEvolution
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On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 8:48 AM Charles IRONS <irons.charles at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello Ubuntu user technical support.
>
> I posted the question below on AskUbuntu 8 days ago and 39 people have read it but there is no answer offered.
> I have done searches. Please advise me where to try next.
>
> "As a retired home user I only need access to email from my desktop PC.
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> So I have used Evolution as mail client interacting with Gmail's server for many years.
>
> Receiving email is with Password and sending email is set to Plain;
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>     because Evolution in Ubuntu 18.04 does not support the Google security setup OAuth2.
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> I have read Ubuntu Community Wiki for a couple of hours and checked similar Ask Ubuntu questions.
>
>
> Is my email secure enough? As an end user age 80 I am not skilled with terminal commands."
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>
> Thanks for helping. Chas
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