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Originally Posted by Broadbandings
Billy-Bob, ideally if things are confidential you should be encrypting them. There are several things that can accomplish this. The good news is that mail to Google's outsourced service is encrypted during transit over SSL / Secure Sockets Layer making it more secure in transit than standard email. If in addition you encrypt the mail yourself with one of the many programs available so that you have the Google encryption then your own inside they will not be able to keyword scan it.
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A very good s/mime tutorial. Can be a bit tricky to set up but ultimately it is time well spent.
http://www.heypete.com/pete/secure/c...thawte/ie.html
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Originally Posted by Broadbandings
I'll ask someone who works for Sky if Sky mail is keyword scanned however I am quite certain this is not the case. Google are receiving revenue directly from Sky and Virgin for the use of their Gmail platform and do not attach advertisements to outsourced mail, so to keyword scan it would be a waste of resource.
EDIT: Billy-Bob: as a general rule always consider email to be the equivalent of a postcard, not a letter inside an envelope. If you require an 'envelope' employ encryption.
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I use GMail's web interface as well as having their POP option activated. The POP option is activated mainly to be able to recieve and send s/mime using Outlook Express, s/mime does not work using a webmail interface directly. When a gmail is recieved via a POP client it does not contain any adverts but looking at the web interface you can see a copy of the mail which has been scanned and injected with targetted ads. Of course you could activate the option NOT to leave a copy on the server BUT I have a sneaky suspician that your mail will still come through the server, still be scanned but it's just that you won't be able to see it via the web interface.