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E-Mail is not a private system for sending messages as much as people might like it to be. It is built on trust just like the real postal service. If you do not trust your provider, or the people you send email (both the recipient and their host) or the intermediary servers the message may pass through then don't use it. Theres nothing inherrently untrustworth about GMail. Google is a legitimate company, that is going public, that has a superb reputation. So unless all the Gmail haters know something about Google that I dont, they are talking complete nonsense. As the last post says (cant remember who it's from my mouse is broken and scrolling AND getting to this edit box is totally out of the question it takes bloody ages to do anything!) if you want privacy your going to have to encrypt your messages. Thats the only way you can be sure (sort of) that your email isnt being read by people inbetween you and the recipient.
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