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2010-06-25
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2010-06-25
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2010-06-25
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2010-06-25
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Passwords depend on your email service and if they use SSL. For instance Road Runner email does not use SSL. If the service does use it your login and passwords are mostly safe. The text/body of emails likely are not. Neither is your general web browsing (without https).
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2010-06-26
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Why do you say part of the IMAP/POP3 transactions are not secure? In web I can understand that some sites use https and some dont. But once an email client connects to an IMAP server using SSL, wouldn't all the transactions remain encrypted until the connection is closed?
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So my questions are:
1) Are the IMAP and POP3 transactions safe on a unencrypted Wifi connection?
2) If no, is there a way to specify which Wifi connection (only) to use for automatic syncing of emails?
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