How to run a secure e-mail session with Fastmail.fm
Fastmail.fm offers a completely secure Webmail session. just type in https://fastmail.fm (remember the "s") instead of http://fastmail.fm, and your entire e-mail session, from login to logout, will be encrypted.
This is especially important when you're using an open, public WiFi connection. Even Gmail's secure option (https://gmail.com) has been shown to be faulty, since cookies are saved on the local machine that can be extracted to reveal your login and password.
I'm not sure how Fastmail.fm stacks up in this regard, but I have a good feeling that it is more secure in https mode.
By the way: I use my DSL Extreme Webmail quite a bit because it is also encrypted. But the site doesn't work with Netscape 4.8, which I use on the 12-year-old Powerbook 1400cs. Luckily Fastmail.fm does.
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Steven Rosenberg aims to learn what he does not know. He writes about it here.
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