On Thu, December 9, 2010 2:37 pm, Scott McEachern wrote:
> On 12/09/10 10:01, lh wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> what are the good available alternatives (security/privacy) for gmail
>> you're using?
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>
> As many others suggested, using your own mail server that you control is
> the *best* way, but that doesn't answer your question.
>
> I know people that use Lavabit.com for free email and they swear by it.
> (I use my own mail server, thank-you.)
>
> The lavabit page boasts of privacy ("a system so secure
> <http://lavabit.com/secure.html> that even our administrators cant read
> your e-mail") but you can never really know unless you're an admin
> there. They offer encrypted connections/ports to send/receive on top of
> port 25.
>
> HTH,
>
> - Scott
>
>
Their encryption is only for paid users, not free accounts.
I have an "enhanced" account with them that I use for my personal email.
I have the asynchronous encryption option enabled, but yeah, there's no
real way of knowing for sure.
No complaints about the service though.
Josh
