How do I get K9 to forget my e-mail password? I have tried changing my password to something bogus but the app is being clever and not forgetting the old one until it gets a new one that works.
I want to delete my password. How?
The entire internet seems to have this idea that authentication should be delegated to my e-mail. I don’t like that, I need to delete my e-mail password from K9. How?
Thanks,
-kb
P.S. No, I am not interested in being told to “find my phone” and wipe it before the bad guys do something bad. No, am not interested in encrypting my phone, I have already done that. I want something very simple here, not a complicated explanation for why I do not want this.
I used to be able to remove the password, but someone went to some programming effort to make that no longer possible. (If the new password I give doesn’t work, the old password continues to be saved.)
Why?
That password is mine, I should be able to control where it sits. I don’t want my e-mail credentials sitting, live, on my phone. Too much security is dumped onto control of my e-mail account these days…
Removing the password is not a useful feature. It just leaves the account in a broken state.
Apparently you’ve used this “capability” to simulate the app not saving the password in the past. But that’s just a bad approximation of a “don’t save password” feature. One with really terrible UX.
We didn’t intentionally break your use case. But we certainly won’t spend any time restoring the ability to intentionally break accounts.
That’s like saying that having a lockscreen password on my phone isn’t a useful feature, “it just leaves the phone in a broken state”. If someone else picks up my phone I want that person to find it in a “broken state”.
It is a security feature. Lots of websites have started equating access to e-mail as authentication (whether I ask for it or not). And for a long time e-mail has been used widely as a recovery feature, meaning anyone with access to my e-mail can hijack all such accounts. So to have my e-mail password sitting there, on a device that can fall out of my pocket or get snatched in a bar, is dangerous.
There is still a (cumbersome) work-around:
Change the password on the server.
Set the new password in K9.
Change the password again on the server.
But I’ve decided to go with a different solution: Delete K9Mail.