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pop3 imap4 smtp
About this tag
This tag covers discussions about POP3, IMAP4, and SMTP protocols in the context of Microsoft Exchange Online and Windows environments. A recent thread highlights Microsoft's plan to block legacy TLS 1.0 and 1.1 connections for POP3 and IMAP4 clients starting July 2026, affecting non-human clients like gateways, scanners, and archival tools. The content focuses on inventorying such clients and ensuring they support TLS 1.2 or later to avoid disruption. Topics include protocol configuration, compatibility, and migration strategies for enterprise mail workflows.
Microsoft will block Exchange Online POP3 and IMAP4 client connections that still negotiate TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1 beginning in July 2026, and the systems most likely to break are not modern Outlook clients but older gateways, scanners, archival tools, mailbox-polling applications, and...