This Wired article talks about the different ways you can back up your important emails, but their recommendations make me wonder. I don't necessarily want all my emails forwarded to another mailbox hosted somewhere else. What if that somewhere else isn't as secure? Couldn't that be exploited to allow a bad actor to receive and abuse password reset emails? Maybe accounts that use multi-factor authentication would be immune, but not everybody provides this as an option.
Right now, I feel like the safest place for my email backup is in the hands of a cloud email provider, behind strong security that includes multi-factor authentication. I'm really not sure how I'd go about making local (or other) backups of all my email history. What do you do for your important emails, dear readers?
This Wired article talks about the different ways you can back up your important emails, but their recommendations make me wonder. I don't necessarily want all my emails forwarded to another mailbox hosted somewhere else. What if that somewhere else isn't as secure? Couldn't that be exploited to allow a bad actor to receive and abuse password reset emails? Maybe accounts that use multi-factor authentication would be immune, but not everybody provides this as an option.
Right now, I feel like the safest place for my email backup is in the hands of a cloud email provider, behind strong security that includes multi-factor authentication. I'm really not sure how I'd go about making local (or other) backups of all my email history. What do you do for your important emails, dear readers?
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