Windows 10: Using VPN inside my home LAN?

It has nothing to do with Outlook, webmail. No email is encrypted over https. You would need to use a SSL certificate and PGP type encryption, with the receiver having a key to unlock what is encrypted in the email. Anything you send over the web is going to be seen "in the clear" if someone finds a way to get within the inside boundaries of a router between you and whatever website you are going to.

You have to remember that a single server can host many websites. Especially if they are using Docker to host websites. A connection and website is only as good in security, as the person or persons maintaining it.

 

Maybe I think that because whenever I use Gmail or Yahoo webmail I see that the connection is encrypted (there's a lock with https during all the session) from the time you sign in until sign out, so it works like a point to point encryption similar to that used in Whatsapp messages. In the past the encryption was only applied to the password/username exchange.

 

The data transmission of the email is secure/encrypted. The storage of that email on Gmail servers...not as much.

Is Gmail Safe For Work? -Kaspersky Daily |

 

Regardless of that little lock you see. Your email is still sent in the clear, same as your loging information.

There is no encryption when you connect to a https website that uses or does not use SSL.

Unless you use a VPN to connect directly to an email server. Everything you do online, can be seen by anyone that may be looking at ways to get around security protocols on a website.

 

So, then, I guess all my banking information is sent in the clear too, because it goes by https:// with a lock symbol too. I would suggest you do a bit more reading to familiarize yourself with what https:// and the lock symbol means.

How does HTTPS actually work? | Robert Heaton

Mixed content blocking in Firefox | Firefox Help

I guess Firefox must by lying about gmail.