2012/10/12 Menachem Moystoviz <moystovi@xxxxxxxxxxx> > From the responses I've received, I gather the following: > - Crypto is only going to get me so far, unless I can coerce all > incoming email to use TLS > - Until I have a steady income, my best bet is to use Google Apps for my > domain > and to download all incoming mail - probably deleting it from > Google's servers while I'm doing it > - Once I have a steady income, I can afford to pay for a VPS, on which > it will be more likely > that a mail server set up on it will be able to send and receive mail > > I really appreciate the help you guys gave. Thank you. > > Gesh > > P.S. I'm aware of the fact that, given a determined enough attacker > with enough resources, anything is hackable. > However, this does not, in my opinion, absolve us from our > responsibility to try and secure our systems > to the extent of our abilities > Even if you delete the messages right away there is a a chance someone can recover it. By default most mail providers won`t really delete your messages but put then in a queue to be deleted. This is used in the case you loose a valuable email or so on. I work in a governmental company on the mail infrastructure and by default we retain any mail for 45 days which is vacations + a buffer in case someone deletes something and needs it when coming back from vacations. Of course the mail won`t be on your inbox but the goverment or google will be able to look on it upon request.
