On 12/9/10 12:34 PM, Kapetanakis Giannis wrote: > On 09/12/10 17:07, Gilles Chehade wrote: >> Own box :-) >> >> lh<maig...@netvisao.pt> wrote: > > That's ofcourse the best solution. > > But YOU have to make it secure and private. If you're not able to do > this yourself, then your best option is to choose a strong password and > change it often. Also you have to trust the machine and the browser > you're login in from, to be "clean" and secure. So no logins from your > friend's (hacker wannabe) laptop.
The private part may introduce a false sense of security. While it's easy enough to set up authentication and encryption between your clients and your mail server, it's pretty much a sure thing that some (and most likely all) connections *between* mail servers will send stuff in the clear. Unless you're only exchanging mail with other servers that use the same auth/crypto that you have, the privacy ends at the mail server. Of course client privacy is much better than nothing (especially for connections over scary coffee-shop Wi-Fi etc.) but end-to-end privacy requires something else, like encrypting mail before it leaves the client. dn
