SSL and E-Mail Print

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Unfortunately email is inherently insecure. By using SSL for Webmail, POP, IMAP, and SMTP (see SMTP TLS) you ensure that communications between your personal computer and QiQ's email server will be encrypted. Your message contents, username, and password will be hidden from eavesdroppers — but only hidden from eavesdroppers between you and QiQ!

SSL services do not protect your messages once they leave the QiQ SMTP Server and head to their destinations. So, it doesn’t really protect your message contents, but it does completely protect your username and password from detection.


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