trusting mail services?

Question

There are many companies that provide these mail services (eg. Yahoo, Rediffmail, Google,etc.). We can create mail account with them & using a password we can access it from anywhere in the world. Sometime we may also deal with highly confidential matters with our friends or others. Now how can we trust these companies that serve mail services? Our email id & the relevant password will we stored on a database with those companies. Now if those companies wish to know our passwords they can easily get it. Because the passwords are stored in their own database. They can see our passwords.
Ofcourse this is a silly doubt. If it would occur there wouldn't be so many people having accounts with them. But imagine what would happen if they see our passwords. I know u would say that the passwords are stored in the enscripted form & can't be viewd by humans. Using advanced programs u can also view the computr stored pwds. If u are very SURE that they CANNOT view our passwrds EXPLAIN me abt that

Answer 1

The reason peoples emails are cracked is due to poor passwords. The better your password the better your chances of never having your email cracked. This windows site will explain making a strong password.

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/privacy/password.mspx

Answer 2

I feel they do an excellent job, getting the mail from one place to another considering how much mail that there is! It is picked up and delivered and could be easily lost! I can only remember 1 time in all my years something not being delivered and was lost! To me that is a really good track record! Loved your poetry and points out the rarity of writting letters, now that the internet has made its way into most homes! We now either email or IM our thoughts! Of course, we still do use regular mail but someday I feel that will that will decrease much! Cheers!!

Answer 3

Use Hushmail.

Answer 4

any one can read any thing i post what is there to hide