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A Secure Email Host Architecture
How would one go about creating a secure email architecture?
I'm thinking specifically about protecting email from routine surveillance from oppressive regimes and corporations.
I had a think about ...
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Keyloggers and Email Accounts [duplicate]
This morning, I was experimenting with some keyloggers and noticed that they have a feature to send e-mails to the attacker.
How can these e-mails be intercepted? Let us say that I have a packet ...
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Ports used by Online Email Accounts such as Yahoo Mail, Gmail etc
Let us say that I send an email using Yahoo Mail or Gmail. Can this email be intercepted using a packet sniffer?
On which port does the email travel? HTTP, SMTP, POP3?
Thank you.
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Send credit card info by email from HTTPS and SMTP on SSL
A client asked me to receive credit card info of his costumers by email.
I know that is a very very not secure way ...
But if the page with the input form is on HTTPS, and then i use a smtp (like ...
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Issues with using a mail server that doesn't support authentication to send mail?
I have noticed the mail server we use at work (provided by our web-host) doesn't require any authentication to send mail through.
I understand you easily spoof sender address' in emails, but I'm ...
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Is it possible to fake the mail server address?
Suppose that I send an E-mail to someone.
Is it possible to fake mail server address - for example, while I used my own local mail server, I send it as if it was sent from Microsoft mail server. (I ...
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End of mail spoofing?
I've made the simpliest e-mail program in C#.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using ...
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How is mail automatically sent from my account?
Today I have received an email with an 'out of office' notification, as a reply to one of my emails, which I actually didn't send. I think it was sent automatically from my address, as a result of ...
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Is it unsafe to allow apps other than Outlook to send email via the Exchange server?
My application is a .NET Windows Forms client, one of whose functions is to allow the user to send personalised mailshot emails to opted-in recipients stored in the database.
The emails are sent ...
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If I send an email over SSL, will it always be transmitted over SSL?
This is largely a question of how MTAs and different components communicate.
I'm curious that if I send an email using SMTP over SSL to my MTA, can it's next jump to the next MTA or MDA be insecure?
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Can I expect my e-mail to be routed securely?
If I connect to my e-mail server via SSL (SMTP/SSL) and the recipient also only checks his e-mail via SSL (web/https or IMAP/SSL), does this - generally speaking - increase the security for the ...
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Email SSL security?
I use IMAP and I only access my email through SSL.
However, the settings for encrypted email access seem a bit more complicated that https. Can someone explain the security implications of the ...
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What steps do Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and Hotmail take to prevent eavesdropping on email?
I would like to ask what happens when an email is sent from gmail, yahoo or hotmail public web email services?
I don't understand email protocols in details, but as far as I know email traffic is ...
