Russell Coker <[email protected]> writes:

> Is there any way to publish the fact that I would prefer to receive mail via 
> SSL?

Not that I know of. I think you would have to configure the sending
server to require it for the destination server. Which really isn't what
you wanted.

> My understanding is that if a hostile party proxies the SMTP session such 
> that 
> the sender thinks that my MTA is incapable of SSL then the sender will 
> happily 
> send it unencrypted.

Yes, I believe you could be correct here. The sending server has no
secure way of knowing that the remote server supports SSL.

Ideally this could be published in DNS, I am not aware of any standards
to do this however. I haven't looked either.
-- 
Brian May <[email protected]>
https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/
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