John Seago wrote:
On Thursday 09 Dec Jenny Hopkins wrote:
This is causing me great grief trying to set up fetchmail to get my mail from gmail's new pop3 server:...
Is it really a good idea to even consider using a mail system that allows Google to read your mail?
If you don't want anyone to read your email, encrypt it. Any company that provides email services has the same ability as Google.
If any company is going to read my emails, I would rather it was one with at least some history of ethics and morals, even if it seems inevitable they will one day be turned evil by money.
If Google want to fund webmail with great features and massive storage with *targeted* *text* adverts, that doesn't bother me. When the computer parses my email to generate ads, it doesn't know what the email means and at least there's a remote chance the ads will be interesting.
The topic of "Google reading your email" has been done to death all over the Internet.