Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:11:14 +0200 From: "Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" <wundram@beenic.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Transparent email proxy Message-ID: <200707161011.14543.wundram@beenic.net> In-Reply-To: <ba5e78ea0707160005g56b56defybb6c1111c9853032@mail.gmail.com> References: <200707130730.l6D7U6v9086226@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <200707160549.l6G5nFCP002529@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <ba5e78ea0707160005g56b56defybb6c1111c9853032@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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