Sorry, what? This just doesn't make sense on any level. It's not in 
Google's economic interest to make me buy a certificate which Google 
doesn't sell. Importing mail from other accounts isn't a premium feature, 
so there should be a way to do it without cleartext passwords or penalty to 
other people. Allowing me to use Gmail's spam filters on imported mail 
doesn't degrade Gmail for me and shouldn't affect anybody else. Neither 
does allowing me to specify that I personally trust a particular 
certificate. A certificate I explicitly trust is worth much more than a 
certificate from a faceless private corporation that I'm assumed to trust 
by default.

Perhaps you also missed the part where Google started silently dropping 
incoming messages sent between other people because of me doing what their 
help pages told me to do. Silently dropping mail is not acceptable under 
any circumstances (and is against the law for traditional mail), and 
punishing a server I volunteer to receive mail from, based on the content 
of that mail, is a dick move.

There is no "sorry this feature isn't available, why don't you upgrade to 
Gmail Gold Star Premium Platinum Plus Edition?" message, the feature used 
to exist but was removed unannounced. If they really wanted me to buy Gmail 
Gold Star Premium Platinum Plus Edition, I don't think they'd rely on you 
to tell me about it in response to a bug report.

-Andrew


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