time to get the TXT from the UK to the Netherlands, I've used the 'call' function once when the TXT took more than 10 minutes. Superb solution. On a related note, if you are ever sending anything remotely sensitive through email (to a work colleague, etc), I highly recommend OneTimeSecret.com. It makes it trivially easy to give someone else an expiring link to a password. "The account had seemed sluggish earlier that morning because my wife had tried to use it at just the moment a hacker was taking it over and changing its settings -- including the password, so that she couldn't log in again. " Sigh...... why would an email service slow down because someone was changing the password? FUD like this is almost as bad as Microsoft. However - The 2 factor authenication is a GREAT thing to enable. I use it, and while its annoying sometimes to have my regular systems sign me out after 30 days, and maybe I don't have my phone with me at the time (very rare) I does give me a happy safer feeling :) &gt;In terms of insecurity, I think the weakest link is that my email is permanently connected on my phone, so if I lost my phone and someone bypassed my pin they could access all of my email. And 2 factor authentication does nothing to solve that. 2 factor authentication does solve that. In order for your phone to access gmail, you create an application-specific password in