While out browsing and surfing around for hints a while back, I came across this entry on Dave Taylor's site. In the post, Dave describes an amazingly simple method for making a secure connection to your Gmail account: After logging in, change the http:// prefix of the URL to https:// and press Return. The page will reload, and you'll see the secure lock icon in the corner of Safari's screen.
While searching around to see where else this might have been mentioned, I happened upon this page at the Google Help Center, with an even nicer answer -- just use https://mail.google.com/ as the URL, and you'll have a secure connection. I've been using Gmail for a long time, and had no idea they had a secure connection available (beyond the login screen), so I thought this worth sharing, even though it's documented. (And Dave's article pre-dates the "modified" date on the Google help entry, so it's possible that page didn't exist when Dave wrote his piece.)
Via - Macosxhintss.com
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