On 12/28/18 12:43 PM, home user via users wrote: > The problem that motivated this thread seems to have (magically!) > disappeared. Perhaps the problem was on the verizon-yahoo end. > > I use Thunderbird almost exclusively (>99%) for my e-mail. All accounts > are set to "SSL/TLS" and "Normal password". If I understand Tim and > Rick correctly, authentication is already encrypted, but the messages > themselves are not (or does SSL/TLS also apply to the messages being > passed between yahoo and me?). So, these are the best settings for my > situation. Encryption of messages would be great, but with multiple > accounts and I-don't-know-how-many-correspondents, that seems like a > logistical nightmare.
The _connection_ is SSL-encrypted, so anything going over that link is SSL-encrypted (including your username/password). You could use an encrypted password (if your provider supports it), but it's sorta redundant in this case. If you were using no encryption on the connection, THEN you'd probably want an encrypted password, but the mail itself wouldn't be encrypted. Note that the encryption only covers the transport over the Internet between your machine and the server. The content of the mail is not stored encrypted once it hits the server or your machine. If you want the _content_ encrypted as well, you'd need to GPG-encrypt it and share your public key with the recipient so they could decode it. > So I consider this issue SOLVED. Thank-you Rick and Tim. You're welcome. > I'm curious: in the HyperKitty version of this list, if I click "Sign > In", I get a page with 10 choices of ways to log in. Is this (9 of > those 10 choices) an example of OAuth2? If you mean the buttons at the top (Fedora, Google, Twitter, GitLab, etc.), yes, that's OAuth2 stuff which permits you to use your account on one of those systems to authenticate. > Happy New Year everyone! You too, buddy! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Diplomacy: The art of saying "Nice doggy!" until you can find a - - big enough rock. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
