On 23/01/2019 09:58, wrote:
Hi All,

I always believed that in the olden days (10-20 years ago). email travelling across the internet
Was unencrypted and insecure.

Correct.

Recently a couple of people have suggested to me that these days its encrypted and always was.

Is it?

More than it used to be...

Was it?

no

It is more common these days to use an encrypted connection between the
mail client and the mail server, and web mail portals will almost always
be https these days. However unencrypted access between client and
server is still permitted and used in many cases.

Also although likely that servers will use encrypted connections between
themselves, its not something that can be guaranteed by the user since
you have no control over the intermediate hosts handling the mail. You
also have no guarantee that the message content will not at some point
reside in an unencrypted mail store on a mail transfer agent somewhere
in the system.



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Cheers,

John.

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