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Allan

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.

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

My understanding is that SMTP (which is a lot of e-mail) is not secure.

Compare ordinary http (non secure) to https (secure).

The connection between your e-mail programme (whether it's web based or
client based) may be secure but that only covers when you collect/read
your e-mail, not when it's in transmission.