[Discuss] Temporarily disable check for messages in Thunderbird

[R. McFarlane]

On 11/1/06 5:04 PM, Adam Parkin wrote:

> stephen hawkes wrote:
>> Yeah I have it setup to not check any of the unsecure ones at startup 
>> (so my gmail and such still automatically get check no matter where I 
>> am and shaw isn't, don't get me started on them and their email), then 
>> when I am at home I just hit get all new messages. Works well enough.
> 
> Yeah I think this is what I'm going to do as well.  I'm actually 
> thinking I might just set the Telus accts so that they have to be 
> checked manually, as I might hit CTRL+ALT+T while at school not 
> realizing that that would check the Telus accts along with my secure 
> accounts.

	It would be nice if Thunderbird had settings similar to Eudora. With 
Eudora you can tell it to check or to *never* check. Very useful for 
accounts that you never want to check. :)

> What would be really cool is if somehow TB could detect if your wireless 
> connection was secure or not (ie used something like WEP) and only 
> checked issecure accounts if the connection was secure.  (although any 
> way you shake it POP is inheritently insecure unless it's done over SSL, 
> it's just that it's *really really* insecure when done without SSL over 
> an open wireless connection)

	Now that would be a very fancy setup.

> As for Shaw and poor e-mail service, try Telus sometime and you'll be 
> glad you're with Shaw. =;->  No IMAP, no secure POP, logins must be with 
> your "real" user id (which is typically something cryptic like 
> a9a2343c), webmail interface is insecure (no SSL encryption), outgoing 
> mail must go through the smtp.telus.net server, your POP password for 
> your primary e-mail account has to be the same as the one for your 
> Internet service account (which includes access to information such as 
> your credit card if you pay by CC), can't remember if this is still true 
> or not, but IIRC it used to be that you had to use the same password for 
> all of your Telus e-mail accounts (so if one is hacked, they're all 
> hacked), etc.

	Yeah it use to be like that. One account to rule them all, one account 
to bind them all. Security wise, that's bad.
	As far as I know, telus is the only ISP in town that offers IMAP 
(besides myself - but I'm not your typical ISP unless the I stands for 
independent). Of course I could be wrong on the *only* part, given than 
I am thinking of mainly telus, shaw and some of the well known locals. I 
do know that telus charges extra for IMAP though.

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