On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 11:22:18AM -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
> Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >SMTP is not secure. That's just the way it is. There is no reason to run
> >SSL on your SMTP port.
>
> How about privacy? It's not as good as end-to-end, e.g. using PGP, but
> it's better than nothing.
The point is that unless you're sending mail to a local user, the same e-mail
is just going to get sent back out, un-encrypted, over the internet. So why
bother encrypting it from the client to the server?
--Adam
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Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "No matter how much it changes,
http://flounder.net/publickey.html | technology's just a bunch of wires
GPG: 17A4 11F7 5E7E C2E7 08AA | connected to a bunch of other wires."
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