From an individual perspective, I would think "secure" means having strong passwords, password rotations, spam filters and anti-virus and anti-spam applications. Service providers ensure email security by using strong password and access control mechanisms on an email server; encrypting and digitally signing email messages when in the inbox or in transit to or from a subscriber email address. It also implements firewall and software-based spam filtering applications to restrict unsolicited, untrustworthy and malicious email messages from delivery to a user’s inbox.
I think perhaps my question should be if there are no mail apps being maintained to keep up with changing protocols, standards and such, what are the alternatives? Does one continue using Tenfourbird or Apple Mail or some older discontinued independent mail application?
