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Hi All,

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

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

Is it?

Was it?

TIA

Chris


No it isn't and it never was, with the exception of mail between
your supplier and your device, which didn't used to be but now
can be. Internet mail between servers uses SMTP which isn't
encrypted.
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