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A lone dog stares contemplatively at the vast landscape, mourning the death of SMTP Basic Auth. The meme perfectly captures that special moment when tech giants decide your perfectly functional legacy system should die because "security." Meanwhile, thousands of IT admins worldwide are frantically updating ancient email scripts before everything breaks. But hey, progress, right?
For the uninitiated, SMTP Basic Auth is that simple username/password authentication that's been reliably sending emails since the dawn of time. Now it's being put down like Old Yeller while modern OAuth solutions stand by, ready to introduce sixteen new points of failure.
