> I've filed a bug report that requests a user profile password. I suggest you find
>that bug at www.mozilla.org and vote for it.
>
> Follow this link: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16489
Although that is a possible solution, there is a lot of evangelism in
that bug. I think what is described below is a bug that goes way back to
the 3.x timeframe and was never fixed.
If you a) do not have a stored master password or cannot make it work or
b) you select "Cancel" or input an incorrect server password in a mail
pane, you should not be able to see old messages in the mail pane -
especially the subjects and senders. Haven't tried recently, but in
earlier Netscape releases at least the body was protected in these
cases. That isn't enough. At present, I can go to the desk of pretty
much any Netscape or Mozilla user and without authentication or even
giving totally bogus credentials - see who they have been writing to and
about what. For any of their mailboxes. This is true even if they choose
to require a login for every server session. Local files, like the Sent
folder (if kept local) are wide open to snooping by anybody with no
hacking involved. Just bring up Netscape on your boss's desk and no
telling what you may discover.
True, a skilled person could pull this info out of the mail databases
and spool files on the machine; but we shouldn't make it so easy.
At a minimum, without a correct password, the password protected
mailboxes should be blanked. And local files should optionally be
allowed password protection.
>
>
> Simon Lee wrote:
>
> Although this can receive the new email before entering the password, the
> old emails can still be seen. This cannot achieve my requirements because my
> computer have a lot of users, I want to make the email setup such that the
> users cannot see the others' mails. Please give reply if one can have a good
> solution, thanks.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Simon
>
> Ken Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> If you goto the following menu on your netscape this will eliminate the
>
> need
>
> to manually type logon and password in all the time. Goto "Edit" then
> "Preferences", select "Mail and Newsgroups", select "Mail Servers", and
>
> Now
>
> to the right is the mail server configuration that you are using
>
> currently.
>
> Highlight it and click on edit. Then a screen will pop up. Check mark "
> Remember Password". Now the next ime you enter your Logon and Password
>
> will
>
> be for the last time. The Only time your will need to type the logon and
> password in is for the newsgroup access. Hopefully netscape will fix that
> part later.
>
> I hope that helps,
>
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>
>
> Simon Lee wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> In Netscape mail function, can we only see the email, including the
>
> old
>
> email
> after entering my own password?
>
> Thanks
> -
> Sincerely yours,
> Simon
>
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Lairo
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> PS. Stop buying M$ Office! Corel WordPerfect Suite is much better and costs less.
>
> PPS. The Mozilla browser is much better than IE & OE (www.mozilla.org)
> It also doesn't "interfere" with Windows and is more standards conform.
