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20050217 Thursday February 17, 2005

Secure wireless email on Mac OS X I don't have time right now, but this looks like a good read:

After more than a year of implementing my own measures, I think it's time to help raise awareness of email security. And in doing so, document the way I use SSH to secure email when I'm on a wireless network. If you're concerned about strangers having open access to your usernames and passwords, and all the email you send and receive while connected to a public wireless network - whether you use a Mac or not - you'll want to read this. [Read More]

Posted in Mac OS X at Feb 17 2005, 09:24:05 AM MST 3 Comments

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I think for many people (if your server supports it) IMAP/SSL is probably a better solution, since more major email clients speak it out of the box. While public commercial services haven't jumped on the bandwagon yet, I know my University has adopted it extensively.

Posted by Jason Shao on February 17, 2005 at 12:52 PM MST #

On the webmail front, ty using HTTPS instead of regular HTTP. I've found that if I hit GMail via https://gmail.google.com it continues to use HTTPS after authentication. Your mail provider may differ.

Posted by Craig on February 17, 2005 at 01:49 PM MST #

Much easier and convenient just to use IMAP/SSL and SMTP/SSL. Most of the servers supports it by now and good clients should support it as well (Thunderbird does).

Posted by Dmitri Maximovich on February 17, 2005 at 03:28 PM MST #

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