[MlMt] Security

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 17 Jan 2018, at 8:33, Fabian Blechschmidt wrote:

>> Is my password to my email account or my email address stored  
>> anywhere?
>
> The password can (not must) be stored in the Mac OS X keychain.
>
>> Or sent anywhere?
>
> MailMate is not "cloud" - so except the mail server itself I assume it 
> stays on your machine.
>
>> Is there any assurance of that?
>
> I hope Benny will answer your mail too and back me up :-)

I back you up. Only thing to add is that one should make sure that SSL 
is always enabled such that a password is never sent to the IMAP/SMTP 
server in plain text. Note that most proper email servers wouldn't even 
allow non-SSL connections.

-- 
Benny
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