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Re: Turning off IMAP


From: Kevin Wilcox <wilcoxkm () APPSTATE EDU>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:05:49 -0400

On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 at 14:51, Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks () vt edu>
wrote:


Out of curiosity, what problem are you trying to solve by doing this?
Is there a reason to force "Thou Shalt Use The Web Interface" and
prohibit the use of mail software that processes the mail locally on
the user's computer?


The biggies for us are that so few clients do proper MFA and
application-specific passwords are essentially $DEITY_MODE.

By "so few clients" I mean "I really love mutt but it isn't Duo-friendly".

We don't turn them off but I advocate it regularly, even if it's meant I
had to leave my beloved mutt.

kmw

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