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Old 08-23-2009, 10:16 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Given that your e-mail will be stored on the recipient's mail server, regardless of what you do at your end, this seems like a pretty pointless thing to worry about. It's best to consider anything you send by e-mail as being protentially "public" information, since you have no control over what the recipient decides to do with it.
Plus if you are not skilled at security putting together your own email server will most likely be the least secure route. GMail is as secure as any other, perhaps more so as they can afford the firewalls to keep hackers out.

Most people are their own worst problem. Some years ago we got a copy of the password file (no associations with any accounts) and found that the following accounted for over 50% of all passwords:
  • sail
  • gold
  • silver
  • honey
  • love
  • password
So much for security for these folks. (Sail had over twice as many hits as the next entry.)
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