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Just wow, yeah. Nothing should ever send you a password in cleartext - once that's been done, a MITM attack's success rate just went to 100%.
It's painless to use password resets if the person forgot the password. Never, ever should a password be in cleartext.
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Ya and have they send you the (one-time) password in cleartext
In my experience it's always a tokenized link, no clear text required.
And what is the token in the link?