From: Rick Moen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: secure pop3/smtp how? - problem broken down
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 12:10:56 -0800
> begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation:
>
> > as another point of view on this matter:
> >
> > i have not found ssl/tls support in mail clients to be as widespread
> > as this statement seems to suggest.
>
> I'm pretty sure he was referring to MTAs.
if that was the intention, i think the wording was poor:
- Modern email software supports using SSL/TLS encrypted channels without
using SSH at all. On the client side, e.g. Netscape supports SMTP with
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
SSL support (STARTTLS protocol) and IMAP with SSL support, Outlook supports
SMTP with SSL (wrapping on all ports but port 25, on which STARTTLS is used).
"On the client side" suggests MUA, not MTA in this context to me.
do you read that differently?
