> Hello,
> Recently, I happen to hear about a website offering facility to check
> any web mail like hotmail, yahoo etc., from their site. But when I visited their
>site,
> I got only some asp error messages and could not see even the opening page.
> For your information only, the address of that site is http://www.searchanymail.com
> What I would like to findout is, is there any existing sites that offer such facility
> to chack any web mail provider through their interface? If yes, any idea how that is
> possible (other than giving links to the respective sites)?
> Regards,
> Sajeev.
There are several, and I'm sure that other people will supply you
with their favorites.
All of them require your password to your hotmail, yahoo etc.
accounts. This means that the owner of the site now has your mailbox
address AND YOUR PASSWORD. Even if the site owner is honest, it
doesn't mean that his system can't be hacked (it usually can since
most of these kinds of sites don't have the quality of sysadmins and
software engineers that Yahoo and Hotmail have, and you may have
heard how often *they* have problems!), and your email address AND
PASSWORD are vulnerable. To say nothing of the increased risk from
having your email address and password sent around the internet at
least TWICE.
This is a very poor security practice. Not only can someone else
then read and delete YOUR email, but they can use YOUR account to
SPAM.
Why not just preserve your privacy and reputation as much as possible
and go directly to the mail site where you get your mail?
