Google's Backdoor Access System into Gmail Accounts

Post by thaumaturgy » Tue, May 03, 2011, 6:42 PM UTC

dspillett wrote: post #84

thaumaturgy wrote: post #78

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Yeah, I've been sorely tempted to make a Stackscript for this setup and make it public. There are two downsides: it's at least $20 a month to do it, and having your own mail server really isn't quite a set-it-and-forget-it deal. It requires an amount of attention that wouldn't make sense for a lot of people (or businesses).

> (or businesses) I'm surprised by how many businesses (even small ones) don't run their own mail server, or at least have a proper outsourcing arrangement rather than just using a public service. We run our own (well, I run our own...) because we work with banks and all contracts we sign with them have clauses regarding where information from them gets stored and who could possibly have access to it - this is to pro…

Post by jrockway » Wed, May 04, 2011, 3:01 PM UTC

16s wrote: post #27

bhousel wrote: post #14

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You could pgp encrypt anything that you really don't to be read in transit. Short of that, you might as well assume that your emails are being read and stored by third parties. Even if you personally use the most secure email server in the world, it doesn't matter because everyone that you send email to or from is likely using hosted services like gmail, verizon, hotmail, etc.

One big point here is that PGP only works when both sender and receiver and doing it. Try sending Bank of America a PGP encrypted email about your account. See what happens. Edit: Re-reading my response... I don't mean this in a condescending way and I agree that PGP is a good way to handle email privacy. I only meant to point out that the majority of people don't use it.

Post by tripzilch » Sun, May 08, 2011, 8:36 AM UTC

jedbrown wrote: post #54

beagle3 wrote: post #36

Some people on this discussion mention that they simply run their own mail servers -- that's dandy for incoming mail. But how do you guys make sure your outgoing mail is not blacklisted/ignored/considered spam? That's been a non trivial problem for me in the past when I was running a mail server (and spam was not such a big problem back then). Also, is there any mail server you can run/recommend that has gmail-speedy…

If you are willing to pull your mail down into a local maildir one way or another, you can index and search it with notmuch ( http://notmuchmail.org/ ).