Special E-Mail Security Settings
When to use SMTPS, POP3S, IMAPS:
- You have extreme security issues where your connection to the
email server might be monitored.
- You are concerned about your password being seen by a snoop. Reading mail
with secure POP and secure SMTP does protect your passwords.
- Your ISP blocks any or all of ports 25, 110/143.
- You just like the novelty of using Secure Socket Layers (SSL)
for your mail.
What is SMTPS, POP3S, IMAPS.
- If you understand security settings a little, this will help
you use alternate port numbers and Secure Socket Layers wherein
all mail content passing between your computer and the server
will be encryted and unreadable to any interceptor including the
likes of the FBI and other such watchdog organizations who do not
under any circumstances have lawful authority to observe in any
way our mail traffic. Read into that what you like.
- Once mail has been sent by our servers using SMTP which is
the standard simple mail transfer protocol, it is unencrypted and
readable by anyone. That's just how it works.
- We can control and encrypt the traffic for the connection
between your computer and our servers. Here's how:
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