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

[Chris]

On Tue, 2019-11-05 at 16:45 +0200, Charles IRONS wrote:
> 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.
> 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; 
>     because Evolution in Ubuntu 18.04 does not support the Google
> security setup OAuth2.
> 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."
> 
> Thanks for helping. Chas
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Charles I use Evolution to send with Gmail but I use Fetchmail to poll
their IMSP servers for mail. Here's a small screenshot of my smtp
setup.
Notice OAuth2 is supported.


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Chris
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