Worried about the security of your email? Don’t like the idea of usernames, passwords and personal emails being sent in clear text across the Internet between your computer and mail server? Read and send email in places where people might sniff you?

If your email server supports connection over SSL (sometimes called POPS and IMAPS), you can use that. Apple Mail supports SSL for both POP and IMAP accounts. (Did you know that .Mac accounts support SSL connections? I didn’t. But I tried it out just now and it is working).

If you don’t, then securing your email traffic with a SSH tunnel might be a good answer for you. There is a long and detailed tutorial on how to do this for Mail.app using SSH Tunnel Manager, a free OS X utility, on the StopDesign blog.

Even if you have no intention of doing anything like this ever, it is still an interesting read.

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Tags: Apple Mail, mail.app, security

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