On Thursday 14 September 2017 11:55:34 Reco wrote: > 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
Given todays $50/terrabyte of storage, it sure isn't the resource problem it was 10 years ago. So I'd expect its being done. Scary ain't it. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
