Hi. On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 10:19:45AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 14 Sep 2017 at 10:51:43 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > Begin rant: > [...] > > Since they without doubt have a backdoor for the snooping agencies, this > > exposes my mail to these people for 1000's of times longer (If I do it > > once a week for instance) compared to fetchmail pulling and deleting it > > every 3 minutes. > > Oh, I see. So if you can just get your emails in and out of the ISP's > system within three minutes, this will catch the snoopers napping/ > on coffee break/gossiping round the water cooler/however the > agency's monitors take their breaks. Do you have a similar strategy > for crossing toll bridges? Like climbing the piers and then sprinting > across, so avoiding the approaches where those pesky toll booths > are located.
While it's a legitimate point, the better one would be the following: How can you be sure that deleting mail at your ISP server actually deletes it? It's very easy to setup mail delivery in such way that every e-mail is stored in two different places, first one for the users' IMAP, and second one is for … backup purposes, so to speak. Reco