K9 and its ISP

  • Thread starter Thread starter Beemer
  • Start date Start date
B

Beemer

I am using K9. When discussing this software with friends they are
suspicious about letting all of their email first pass through a
proxy ISP. What assurance is there that my incoming email will be
confidential?

Is my email in fact accessible by anyone including Robin Keir?

Beemer
 
Beemer said:
I am using K9. When discussing this software with friends they are
suspicious about letting all of their email first pass through a
proxy ISP. What assurance is there that my incoming email will be
confidential?
Click to expand...

K9 is running on your machine...
Is my email in fact accessible by anyone including Robin Keir?
Click to expand...

By anyone with access to your machine...
 
K9 is a program running on YOUR own PC - it has NOTHING to do with your ISP.
K9 (the program) merely sits between your normal email client (say Outlook
Express or Outlook) and K9 retrieves your mail from your ISP's mail server and
then, after examining it and perhaps marking it as SPAM, hands it to your email
program.

The part about "sitting between" is the action described as being a "proxy".
 
Beemer said:
I am using K9. When discussing this software with friends they are
suspicious about letting all of their email first pass through a
proxy ISP. What assurance is there that my incoming email will be
confidential?

Is my email in fact accessible by anyone including Robin Keir?
Click to expand...

in addition to the follow-ups you've already gotten on K9, it might be
worth it to realize that email never was confidential... it's about as
confidential as a postcard...
 
Back
Top