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Andy Burns[_13_] Andy Burns[_13_] is offline
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Default How secure was / is email

TimW wrote:

wrote:

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

Is it?

Yes, almost always


well, it can be done opportunistically when sending nd receiving sever
support it, but it's only encrypted in transit, not when at rest, and it
would be unwise to rely on it ... if you need encryption, do your own.