On 12/28/18 12:43 PM, home user via users wrote:
The problem that motivated this thread seems to have (magically!)
disappeared. Perhaps the problem was on the verizon-yahoo end.
I use Thunderbird almost exclusively (>99%) for my e-mail. All accounts
are set to "SSL/TLS" and "Normal password". If I understand Tim
and
Rick correctly, authentication is already encrypted, but the messages
themselves are not (or does SSL/TLS also apply to the messages being
passed between yahoo and me?). So, these are the best settings for my
situation. Encryption of messages would be great, but with multiple
accounts and I-don't-know-how-many-correspondents, that seems like a
logistical nightmare.
The _connection_ is SSL-encrypted, so anything going over that link is
SSL-encrypted (including your username/password). You could use an
encrypted password (if your provider supports it), but it's sorta
redundant in this case. If you were using no encryption on the
connection, THEN you'd probably want an encrypted password, but the
mail itself wouldn't be encrypted.
Note that the encryption only covers the transport over the Internet
between your machine and the server. The content of the mail is not
stored encrypted once it hits the server or your machine. If you want
the _content_ encrypted as well, you'd need to GPG-encrypt it and share
your public key with the recipient so they could decode it.
So I consider this issue SOLVED. Thank-you Rick and Tim.
You're welcome.
I'm curious: in the HyperKitty version of this list, if I click
"Sign
In", I get a page with 10 choices of ways to log in. Is this (9 of
those 10 choices) an example of OAuth2?
If you mean the buttons at the top (Fedora, Google, Twitter, GitLab,
etc.), yes, that's OAuth2 stuff which permits you to use your account
on one of those systems to authenticate.
Happy New Year everyone!
You too, buddy!
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