[JAWSLite] how to securing your gmail account

No matter what firewall you are using, if you are connecting to services 
online without using encryption there's a chance for your data to be 
hijacked,
especially if you are connecting over a wireless network. Today we'll 
show you how to turn on SSL for Gmail while still allowing the Gmail 
Notifier to
work properly.
Turning on SSL for Gmail is hardly a secret anymore, but getting the 
Gmail Notifier to continue to work isn't quite as well known, so we're 
covering both
just for completeness. You can also think of this as a reminder to 
enable SSL if you haven't already.

Configure Gmail to Always Use SSL

Once you login to your Gmail account, you'll want to click the Settings 
link in the upper right-hand corner.

Then at the bottom of the general settings page, select the "Always use 
https" option, and click the Save Changes button.

That should be all you need to do. from now on you'll be redirected to 
the SSL version of Gmail every time after logging in, no matter what 
computer you
access email from.

Configure Gmail Notifier To Use SSL Encryption

As soon as you turn on the option to Always use https, you'll notice 
that all of a sudden your Gmail Notifier doesn't work anymore, because 
it requires
a registry hack to switch the default URL to https instead of http.

Manual Registry Hack

Open up regedit.exe through the start menu run or search box, and then 
browse down to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Gmail\Flags

Right-click in the pane on the right-hand side and create a new string 
with the following values:

list of 2 items
. Name: url
. Value: https://mail.google.com/mail/
list end

Close and re-open the Gmail Notifier, and you should immediately be able 
to see your notifications again.

Downloadable Registry Hack

Google is actually nice enough to provide a  downloadable registry hack
  to make the notifier work properly. Just extract the zip file, and 
double-click on the included notifier_https.reg file to turn on SSL for 
your notifier.
There's an included undo script as well.

Download Gmail Notifier SSL script from google.com
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer?29

http://www.google.com/mail/help/downloads/notifier_https.zip
Hope this may be of some use, Regards from Ali
Thank you all.

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