>From their services page: 5. Secure mail services (smtp-auth w/ TLS, IMAPs/POP3s)
I don't actually make use of this, as the "killer app" for a shell account was a place where I could run (al)pine against local mail service (it is not all that nice as a pop3 client, in my experience). On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Josh Rickmar <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 can t 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
