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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Now I'll stop being polite. He's so full of it his eyeballs should turn brown. There are two possibilities - either he's dreadfully ignorant, and actually believes what he's saying, or he knows better and he's lying and preying on your ignorance to sell you something. Which it is doesn't matter. Either would be cause for me to stop dealing with GoDaddy.
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Completely agree with Dennis. The idea that product A has better security than product B just because you have to pay for it is absurd. People have been trotting this out about Linux vs Windows security for years, and it's ridiculous.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
And what does he think happens when an email client communicates with a server? Email servers want authentication, to prove you are the person authorized to access that email. They want a user id and a password. You create the account in the email client when you set it up. The client sends the user id and password as part of the negotiation when you check for email on the server. This is different from webmail how, exactly?
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The only difference I can see is that if you're typing in your password, you're vulnerable to a keyboard sniffer. But only if you have things set up so that you have to type in your password, and only if you're not using two-factor authentication. If you have a client and have it set up so that you have to type in the password every time, you're still vulnerable to a keyboard sniffer.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches, so I'd say use the one that you prefer.