Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 16:48:04 -0800 From: Pat Lashley <patl+freebsd@volant.org> To: ticso@cicely.de, Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SPAM!! Message-ID: <304983520.1070239684@mccaffrey.phoenix.volant.org> In-Reply-To: <20031130223621.GI81181@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <20031122203032.B4A7C43FB1@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <1069535527.722.15.camel@klamath> <20031122235612.GC4757@angeldust.chaos> <3FC0FDFE.1080108@isi.edu><20031130223621.GI81181@cicely12.cicely.de>
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--On Sunday, November 30, 2003 23:36:22 +0100 Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> wrote: > Thinking about this is woth nothing anyway. > I know for shure that spammers are already sniffing SMTP transfers to > gather addresses. Sounds like a good reason to enable TLS on all the SMTP servers under your control... Anonymous TLS won't stop a man-in-the-middle; but it will block plain snooping. And it's generally pretty easy to do. The more sites that implement it, the more secure the mail infrastructure is from random snooping. (Of course, to get anything approaching real security, the server and client need to check each other's certs. Which requires a certificate handling infrastructure...) -Pat
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