We're sending mail to addresses of the form:
xxx...@mobileemail.vodafone.de

The MX for mobileemail.vodafone.de is:

# host -t mx mobileemail.vodafone.de
mobileemail.vodafone.de mail is handled by 5  vodade.mx1.eu.blackberry.com.
mobileemail.vodafone.de mail is handled by 10 mx03.bis7.eu.blackberry.com.
mobileemail.vodafone.de mail is handled by 10 mx04.bis7.eu.blackberry.com.
mobileemail.vodafone.de mail is handled by 10 vodade.mx2.eu.blackberry.com.
mobileemail.vodafone.de mail is handled by 10 mx01.bis7.eu.blackberry.com.
mobileemail.vodafone.de mail is handled by 10 mx02.bis7.eu.blackberry.com.

None of these hosts supports any kind of transport level security
(e.g. encryption using STARTTLS), showing vodade.mx1.eu.blackberry.com
as an example:

# telnet vodade.mx1.eu.blackberry.com. 25
Trying 178.239.87.4...
Connected to vodade.mx1.eu.blackberry.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 antispam7.c0.bise7.blackberry ESMTP
EHLO mail2.charite.de
250-antispam7.c0.bise7.blackberry
250-8BITMIME
250 SIZE 8388608
QUIT
221 antispam7.c0.bise7.blackberry
Connection closed by foreign host.

Is this intentional? This breaks the "End-to-end Encryption". 
Is there a "secret" way of passing them the email in an encrypted
fashion? Is this maybe an "EU-only" problem?

-- 
Ralf Hildebrandt
  Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk
  Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
  Campus Benjamin Franklin
  Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin
  Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962
  ralf.hildebra...@charite.de | http://www.charite.de
            

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-- 
Ralf Hildebrandt
  Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk
  Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
  Campus Benjamin Franklin
  Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin
  Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962
  ralf.hildebra...@charite.de | http://www.charite.de
            

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