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Most POP Not Secure

Mark — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:21:36 +0000

I’m not a kid but I try to keep up with all of the new technology. I am a huge advocate of Gmail and all of the Google apps. I belong to a computer users group. Those of you who have been to a computer users group knows it’s mostly seniors now. I’m 49 and one of the youngest members. Often when I’m proselytizing for Gmail one of the members will say “What about security and privacy?” I will tell them that Gmail with its 256bit AES plus SSL is more secure then what they’re using now, unencrypted POP mail. (Assuming a good pass word is being used.) Anyone on your network can retrieve messages when using POP over port 110.

Here’s Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson of Security Now to tell you more about it.

This is the tool that Leo and Steve were talking about. Ettercap

I posted this earlier but I had the wrong audio file attached.

Gmail Tip

Mark — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:32:30 +0000

The email from all of my account goes to Gmail so I have to go to different sites or open and email program. I go to Gmail and it’s all there. See Lifehacker. But that’s not the tip!

Google does not check your POP account frequently so you may have your Gmail open but your not seeing all of you messages because they’re still on the server. You can go to “Settings”, “Accounts and Import”, go down to “Check mail using POP3″ and click on “Check mail now”. This will import any new messages.

This method is very inconvenient. A better way is to turn on this new feature that checks your POP accounts whenever you click the “Refresh link” just above your messages.

At the top of the Gmail page click “Settings” and “Labs”. Find “Refresh POP accounts” and enable it. Now you can check your POP accounts with ease.