What are the advantages of using Mailbox versus webmail.qc.edu, PMAIL, Eudora, Outlook, Hotmail, or Yahoo?
The principal advantage is that Mailbox has built-in support for several languages such as Spanish, Russian, German, Chinese and Korean (see the drop-down menu for complete list). Academically, foreign-language teachers can use this feature to communicate in the language being studied. Personally, foreign-born students can use it to communicate in their native tongue. The other major advantage is security. When you read your QC e-mail on campus, your transmissions are protected by the switched network’s infrastructure. Off-campus, however, you are theoretically subject to eavesdropping. Mailbox encrypts transmissions between itself and your web browser so that it is virtually impossible for a hacker to interpret what is being sent. The advantage Mailbox has over PMAIL and Eudora is that when you are away from your home, office/campus, and/or laptop you can still read your mail on another computer because you do not have to have either PMAIL or Eudora installed on that computer. All you
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