Robert Sesek
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Robert Sesek
@rsesek.bsky.social
Software engineer, infosec. Mac & Android internals, reverse engineering, FOIA. Views are my own.

https://robert.sesek.com
I'm going to play with this Gmail API to see if I can salvage mailpopbox before January.
October 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I built an entire mail server around the POP3 connection in Gmail (github.com/rsesek/mailp...), so this definitely bites me hard.

Last night I found developers.google.com/workspace/gm... which looks promising if it can accept a single `gmail.insert` scope. But OAuth in a daemon is still annoying.
Method: users.messages.insert  |  Gmail  |  Google for Developers
developers.google.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Thanks, hadn't seen Jar's post. I appreciate his perspective and the choices he makes with MXRoute, but I do find some of the behaviors frustrating as a user (another is stripping the first-hop Received header on SMTP). I have a little more hope for ARC given that Gmail purports to observe it…
October 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Not that I've found. And I'm not a huge fan of the IMAP approach because then my Gmail creds are on that server. I'm going to be switching to forwarding. Delivery might be more reliable with ARC signatures, I hope.
October 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Gmail is dropping POP3 pulling in January. I've used this feature for years (and coincidentally MXRoute)... support.google.com/mail/answer/...
Learn about upcoming changes to Gmailify & POP in Gmail - Gmail Help
Starting January 2026, Gmail will no longer provide support for the following: Gmailify: This feature allows you to get special features like spam protection or inbox organization applied to your
support.google.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
It's ridiculous to me how NYC has free street parking but not busses.
June 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Do you happen to know the make of those shoes?
December 20, 2024 at 3:13 AM
I'm interested in Oppenheimer mostly for the filmmaking (70mm IMAX). But I'm seeing Barbie first.
July 22, 2023 at 1:54 AM
Thanks! What a terrible term…
July 4, 2023 at 9:53 PM