Re: Saving passwords without prompting
- From: "Ralph Wade Phillips" <ralphp@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 08:24:54 -0600
Howdy!
"Welshie" <thewelshman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:41i6b2F1epnenU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> It's my own pc at home.
>
> I use Outlook Express to download them from the server.
>
> The content of the e.mails are of no importance but the fact an
unauthorised
> person MAY be accessing my e.mail account via my server is.
>
I'm a bit baffled. If it's YOUR own server, why not just check the
connection logs and see what IP and when the other person is accessing it?
And if they are - why, change the password!
If it's the ISP's server, then change your password NOW. Don't
wait, don't finish reading this, go change it NOW.
Done? OK!
Now - You can tell Outlook Express to save your password if you
wish. But that won't keep anyone else from accessing your account if they
know what the password is. Plus, if it's someone else in your household
doing it, saving the password just makes it easier for them to, since they
won't have to enter it ...
But Johannes has a valid point - email isn't a secure method of
information transfer anyway.
RwP
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