Formula Jr
04-21-2006, 10:37 PM
I did something odd the other day that has me thinking about how safe anyone's POP mail
account is.
I was configuring System X for two users. Me and the girlfirend's and got confused where I was in the system. I had set up her ISP account information
with authentication to send and recieve e-mail. Then I thought I was creating my ISP account on the same machne, under a user account but I was still in Administrator mode.
What happened was I ended up with a dial out to my Local ISP, with my sign on name and password, but all the rest of the settings for mail were of her ISP's mail servers and passwords.
when I opened the mailer it started pulling in all of her stuff from her POP account directly into the Apple Mail Program. I went, "thats not my mail!"
Is this a valid way to set things up? Call into any local ISP under one user account and then get access directly to any mail server so long as all the passwords are right and the servers named?
That would be a cool way to by-pass the funky remote mail services that most ISPs provide.
account is.
I was configuring System X for two users. Me and the girlfirend's and got confused where I was in the system. I had set up her ISP account information
with authentication to send and recieve e-mail. Then I thought I was creating my ISP account on the same machne, under a user account but I was still in Administrator mode.
What happened was I ended up with a dial out to my Local ISP, with my sign on name and password, but all the rest of the settings for mail were of her ISP's mail servers and passwords.
when I opened the mailer it started pulling in all of her stuff from her POP account directly into the Apple Mail Program. I went, "thats not my mail!"
Is this a valid way to set things up? Call into any local ISP under one user account and then get access directly to any mail server so long as all the passwords are right and the servers named?
That would be a cool way to by-pass the funky remote mail services that most ISPs provide.