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Apple Betas Web-based Email Service for iTools

Posted by chrisd on from the steve-jobs-as-snowshoe-thompson dept.

cpk0 writes "As more and more 'free' web-based email services fall, and stop offering all their services for free (e.g. Yahoo! won't offer pop-forwarding for free anymore), Apple once again proves its cool-factor by beta-testing a webmail page for use with their iTools e-mail account members. You will find a beta login page, with a link to a feedback page. Now's the time to tell Apple what you guys want to see in this new feature."

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  1. OmniWeb and WebEmail by norwoodites · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you try to use WebEmail for iTools in OmniWeb be sure you change the identity of OmniWeb so it identifies itself as IE or Netscape, otherwise you get a message saying your browser is not supported.

  2. Re:Passwords for sale by repoleved · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hear hear,

    but if you use linux or *bsd, then you can set up your own, truly private, email service, and make it as secure as you want with

    1. open source operating system
    2. apache
    3. ssl module
    4. php module
    5. squirrel mail
    6. a free dns server (and there are plenty of these)
    7. an always on internet connection such as adsl

    or a friend with all of the above... ;-)

    case

  3. Re:Free by PythonOrRuby · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, as I recall, only the initial signup has to be done via a Mac. Since Apple actually bases their services on industry standards, like LDAP, IMAP, and WebDAV, you can then access those services(not sure about webmail though, yet) from any computer. Some have even reported that iDisk(WebDAV) access is noticeably faster, though less slick, from NT-based machines.

  4. Re:Passwords for sale by rbrito · · Score: 2, Informative

    I agree completely. I have fear of using my POP3 account anytime I use my notebook, wandering through networks (where I have to) whose (local) security I know nothing about.

    And what makes the matters worse is that setting up a secured version of POP3/IMAP is exceedingly easy with the use of SSL wrappers like stunnel or sslwrap.

    So, this once again convinces me that the problem with security is not technological, but educational and/or philosophical.