[ale] mail server with dynamic IP?

Michael Trausch mike at trausch.us
Thu Jan 20 10:07:16 EST 2011


I don't believe any mail servers have actually asked mine to speak securely.
And that isn't the point anyway; it still passes through hosts that are not
your own, where they can be logged or recorded or analyzed.

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On Jan 20, 2011 10:04 AM, "Chuck Peters" <cp at axs.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
>
>> Email. Is. Not. Private.
>>
>> It does not matter who is hosting it. Unless you are using openpgp or
>> s/mime, it ain't private. Period.
>>
> Not completely true. I have our exim servers set to use TLS, so some, but
> not all mail is encrypted between the mail servers.
>
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security
>
>
> Chuck
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