Can the administrators of an email server detect/distinguish whether each of their email users are accessing the email server via webmail (i.e. thru browser) as opposed to via an email client application ?
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Of course they can. They have all the logs.
You can even sometimes tell what email client was used, if you read the email headers.
I thought as much. I believe that one of the major email services is trying to use this ability to coach
their email customers into signing up for paid technical support plans which they (the customers) do
not need by sporadicly turning on and off the customers ability to send and receive emails when they are using a client email application.
This sounds very unlikely for Microsoft, Google or Amazon. Those companies are watched like a hawk and this would be front-page news on all the tech sites. On the other hand, if someone at ComCast read your post they'd forward it on to their lawyers for the go-ahead.
Is this "major" service someone smaller like GoDaddy or a little ISP?