Getting e-mail from GMail but without keeping messages

[Scott van Looy]

Today Paul Smith did spake thusly:

> On 2/18/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> > I do not want to store messages locally to minimize the risk of them
>> > being spied by someone else. With the CustomizeGoogle extension of
>> > Firefox, one can read GMail accounts with the https protocol, which
>> > encrypts the communications between my machine and GMail servers.
>> 
>> But are HTTP pages cached in your browser?
>> 
>> I'd suggest that your mail cannot be casually spied upon on your
>> computer if you do not share log-ins, and don't leave your computer
>> without logging out or locking out access.
>
> But the traffic containing the messages may be spied between my
> computer and the GMail server. If the traffic obeys to the https
> protocol, hence it may be spied but it will be useless for the spier.

Also, most browsers don't cache https content by default

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