Polling for mail

[Paul Wiener]

On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:52:33 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:11:59 -0400, Subba Rao wrote:
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>>The password protection is good for other users not be able to read your
>>email. It should still fetch the mail, when the account is closed.
>
>    What if you have password protection on at work and at home and someone
>starts it at work.  Sure, they're locked out, but now your mail is being
>retrieved there while you're tryint to retrieve it from home.

Agreed. Further, the mail in pw-protected accounts isn't necessarily
encrypted. If your mail is collected while other parties are in control of
your computer, they can browse the PMMail directories and read your messages,
delete them before you ever see them, etc.

If your mail is collected only when you're in command of the keyboardl, you
can delete or otherwise hide messages that you don't want falling into the
hands of others who may have access to your system.

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