On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:00 PM, katan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:11:22 -0700, Fred Jones wrote: > > >Thanks everyone for the great replies. Tom's reply about the over-the-air > >part of the transmission is what is still confusing me. How can the > >over-the-air part of the communication be protected using only SSL login > on > >email without a VPN or other encruption? > > What the people are sayig, is that as long as you have that <https:> > connection (pad lock closed somewhere in your browser), you're golden. > (I guess) Depending on your email provider, it'll either be secure just > for login (seems like a crappy way to do things), or secure for the > whole session. > > My HIS account is secure throughout. I notice that GMail is not. > Neither is Yahoo or Netzero. > > As usual: YMMV >
To make gMail secure all the time go to the settings. Select the tab for general and select the last item on the list- always use https. I would also save the bookmark for gmail as https://mail.google.com so the login will remain secure as well. John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
