Am 2016-04-11 um 14:51 schrieb Brandon Vincent:
Implemented properly it shouldn't matter which option you pick. The SSL/TLS option is actually depreciated. Thunderbird should refuse a connection if you have STARTTLS checked and the server doesn't support it. It sounds more like your login was what was throwing the alert.
For the Hong Kong VPN, yes. That one was ok.... but what about the unencrypted Wifi in Villach, Austria I had used after which I got login attempts from Russia. Google Mail accounts are encrypted since long (1,5 years in the past; i.e. that was last summer when I remember it correctly.); possibly I will have to look if I still have the Google warning; now I want to see the proof for it myself once more ...
The best advice I can offer is to not use an "untrusted" VPN. Free VPN services have to make money somehow. Brandon Vincent
The question always is on how much you trust your ISP and the internet connection you have. If a site is not available by my ISP I perhaps wanna try it via a VPN or Tor. Otherwise we would not need sites like downforeveryoneorjustme.com.
Some of my friends do also complain not to receive emails from me or I do not receive emails they told me afterwards that they would have written me. This is usually due to spam settings but I for my revido account have disabled any spam deletion or trashing so that every message considered spam still will arrive at my inbox (flagged as spam though). Why there are still emails lost every now and then remains ominous.
Finally some relatives of mine have once told me that a link on my own site http://www.elstel.org/MH17.html.de would not work. I just popped up my browser and verified that the link was in deed working from me and the net my ISP provides to me (yes; this time it was the other way round). The message behind the link was somehow politically delicate claiming that the West would try to provoke a war with Russia (in the meantime this site has resettled to de.sputniknews.com, though that time when my relatives had complaint it had not yet resettled (i.e. the link may be dead when you test it nowadays but that time it was not.).).
Elmar Stellnberger