Tine Blomme schreef:
I am naieve to think that it is safer to send private mails (aka gossip) via the gmail webinterface, rather than via thunderbird? You know, in case, big brother is watching me.... I hope that via the web, my gossip gets lost in all internet traffic from the building, and via thunderbird it can more easily be tracked. If this is a stupid question/thought, please forgive me; I try to believe I have other talents than computer stuff... :-)
You can encrypt your private mail connection using SSL (I only check my email over IMAP+SSL) and you can even let your Thunderbird encrypt the content of your mails using PGP if you're really paranoia. I think it's better to use clients/protocols for what they are made for, instead of trying to push everything through port 80. The GMail web client is ok, but for organizing, filtering, automatic checking, etc... is still much faster and more convenient to use an actual client. And not everybody uses GMail for their private mailbox. I have eg. my own mailbox at gandi.net, but I'm not fond of the web client(s) they are providing. Oh, and don't forget Google is reading your emails :-) And someone correct me if I'm wrong, but if you're sending your conversations in plain text and someone really wants to eavesdrop, it as easily read when it's packaged in HTTP as in IMAP and SMTP. T.
i also sent an email to it with yves in cc
Esther-Kristin Lather wrote:
Let's go on their nerves. I will write an innocent mail asking why it doesn't work anymore.
Esther.
Nathalie Pochet wrote:
definitely, this is absolutely ridiculous. even my broad imap doesn't seem to work - i really need to read and send emails via that account and i refuse to spend my time opening webmail pages. can't we do anything about that???
Esther-Kristin Lather wrote:
IT sucks?
Kenny Billiau wrote:
Yes. Unless you use wireless (you don't have the hardware on these labpc's) or a webclient, you cannot access them.
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Esther-Kristin Lather wrote:
> Is the answer to why my mail-accounts (not the @psb.ugent, but > two others) in Thunderbird don't work anymore since some days > (since the network reconfiguration???)? > > Michiel Van Bel wrote: >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> Subject: >> Re: Ports >> From: >> HelpDesk <help@psb.ugent.be> >> Date: >> Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:51:27 +0200 >> To: >> Kenny Billiau <kebil@psb.ugent.be> >> >> To: >> Kenny Billiau <kebil@psb.ugent.be> >> CC: >> Yves Van de Peer <yvpee@psb.ugent.be>, Michiel Van Bel >> <mibel@psb.ugent.be>, Thomas Van Parys <thpar@psb.ugent.be> >> >> >> Hoi, >> >> Alleen IMAPS is toegelaten in het PSB netwerk. Andere mail >> protocollen >> zijn nog altijd via het Wireless netwerk beschikbaar. >> IRC naar freenode zullen we openzetten. >> Voor de andere services geven we de voorkeur aan de web clients. >> >> Luc >> >> Kenny Billiau wrote: >> > Hoi, >> > > na wat overleg met de andere techniekers (thpar, mibel) zou >> het mssn > handig zijn om volgende poorten open te zetten. Mssn >> enkel vooor de > mensen in beg? >> > > IMAP over SSL: 993 >> > IMAP zonder SSL: 143 >> > POP3 >> > Er kunnen geen externe mailboxen meer worden geopend (gmail >> in > thunderbird lijkt niet meer te werken). >> > Hotmail in outlook of mail (mac) is ook onbereikbaar. (Geen >> idee van het > protocol of poort. Ik dacht simpelweg over http, >> maar lijkt niet te > lukken.) >> > > IRC: 6667 >> > Enkel voor irc.freenode.org. Freenode heeft enkel techsupport >> kanalen > voor bv Java, Perl, php, linux, eclipse, vim, >> cakephp, .. >> > > Google Talk: 5223 >> > MSN: 1863 >> > ICQ: 5190 >> > IM's, occasioneel gebruikt om collega's te contacteren die >> thuis werken. >> > > NNTP: 119 >> > Usenet, momenteel niet vaak gebruikt, maar in het verleden >> zijn de > eclipse-nieuwsgroepen al van groot nut geweest. >> > > Uiteraard zijn er voor al deze toepassingen afzonderlijke >> web clients > beschikbaar, maar dat betekent heel wat (tragere >> en onhandige) browser > vensters die moeten open staan, terwijl >> die anders in twee kleine > clients (Thunderbird, Kopete of >> centerim) op de achtergrond draaien. >> > > -Kenny
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