[Discuss] Temporarily disable check for messages in Thunderbird

[Adam Parkin]

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.

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)

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.
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