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Old 28 Dec 2016, 08:36 AM   #20
jhollington
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Originally Posted by BritTim View Post
I was assuming he was referring to NAS boxes, or other network devices with (for instance) printing and scanning functions that rely on email. No doubt there are other similar capabilities around also. Whatever his specific use case, device passwords are definitely a great feature.
Yeah, agreed, and serious kudos to FastMail that they allow an app-specific password for SMTP-authenticated sending only — I've used a couple of those myself.

I obviously originally assumed he was concerned that his router's firmware was potentially intercepting the password in transit
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