[MlMt] Easy method to change IMAP\SMTP account password

[Bill Cole]

On 1 Sep 2020, at 21:22, Antonio Leding wrote:

> Hello MM community,
>
> Is there any way to batch change the IMAP and\or SMTP password for 
> multiple accounts?  If not, then I can submit a feature request — 
> seems like a simple feature add so hopefully Benny and tram see value 
> in adding something like this…

If you mean to set the passwords to distinct accounts to the same thing, 
this would be a misfeature in my opinion.

The primary mechanism by which email accounts are compromised these days 
is not password guessing or phishing, it is credential stuffing: trying 
bulk collections of name+password combinations acquired from the huge 
number of breached user databases of various services. In the past, 
password reuse posed a mostly theoretical risk in targeted attacks, but 
today it has become a component in commoditized bulk account compromise. 
You can't rely on not being a target, because everyone is a target.

> Or perhaps a better plan of attack is to decouple the SMTP account 
> definition from the actual IMAP accounts…in essence the ability to 
> create SMTP account profiles that then can be attached to a given IMAP 
> account.  Think of how awesome this would be.  Define the SMTP server 
> account once and then use it across several IMAP accounts.

That is a very different and better feature. It has been years since I 
last suggested it to Benny, and I don't remember how or if he responded. 
The one downside I can see with it comes from supporting Apple Mail 
users. Users who don't have a strong understanding of how email works 
are sometimes confused by its implementation.

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