From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 16 08:11:16 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC3AC16A405 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:11:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wundram@beenic.net) Received: from mail.beenic.net (mail.beenic.net [83.246.72.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9023D13C4A7 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:11:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wundram@beenic.net) Received: from [192.168.1.37] (a89-182-13-194.net-htp.de [89.182.13.194]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.beenic.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 113FCA44529 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:09:45 +0200 (CEST) From: "Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" Organization: Beenic Networks GmbH To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:11:14 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200707130730.l6D7U6v9086226@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <200707160549.l6G5nFCP002529@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707161011.14543.wundram@beenic.net> Subject: Re: Transparent email proxy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:11:16 -0000 On Monday 16 July 2007 09:05:56 Daniel Marsh wrote: > I've never come across anyone using TLS+SMTP, in most cases I've found th= at > SMTP is accepted as insecure (esp. over the Internet). If we were talking > intra-company SMTP over the Internet, different story altogether due to t= he > company needing privacy. Ahemm... That depends largely on the audience you're administering for... I personally have seen that many large (german) (free-)email providers are= =20 trying to force SMTP through TLS for sending out email through their server= s=20 at the moment, simply because they don't want passwords for logging in to=20 their service transferred as plaintext (and thereby sniffable by the=20 provider/network you're using). It's not so much about the mail (content)=20 itself, it's more about the authentication that's required to relay. =2D-=20 Heiko Wundram Product & Application Development =2D------------------------------------ Office Germany - EXPO PARK HANNOVER =20 Beenic Networks GmbH Mail=E4nder Stra=DFe 2 30539 Hannover =20 =46on +49 511 / 590 935 - 15 =46ax +49 511 / 590 935 - 29 Mail wundram@beenic.net Beenic Networks GmbH =2D------------------------------------ Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hannover Gesch=E4ftsf=FChrer: Jorge Delgado Registernummer: HRB 61869 Registergericht: Amtsgericht Hannover