Re: Saving passwords without prompting

Ralph Wade Phillips wrote: 
        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! 

Why?

Far better to try and catch whomever in the act.

        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.


It's not, but it should safely keep the majority of prying eyes out.

Unless a network admin somewhere along the mails route takes a look, or the POP3 box is brute forced,, your email should be pretty safe.

If the OP is running his own mailserver, taking a peep at the logs would be the best way to go. If he isn't, and the logs aren't available, I'd suggest planting a link to a website that logs are available for. Don't visit the link youself, but see if someone else does, and from what IP address the visit comes from.

If you know whomever you suspect is reading your mails, it should be easy enough to get them to visit a particular link.. Just dress a forged mail up to look like it's from someone they know.
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