On Mon 15 Jan 2018 at 14:08:35 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, January 15, 2018 01:58:08 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 01:51:30PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Does the SMTP server encrypt both between it and the "client" and between > > > it and the other end destination / source? > > > > No, not always. Plaintext SMTP is the default for transferring mail > > from one server to another. Basically, you should just assume that > > anything you send in an email is readable by the entire world, unless > > you encrypt the actual message itself (PGP, GnuPG, etc.). > > Ok, thanks. I guess that's what I expected, and that it could almost more > accurately be phrased--"almost never, unless you encrypt the actual message".
You are confusing what the smtp delivery system can do with what *you* can do before sending the mail. There is no connection between the two. -- Brian.