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Tim Watts[_5_]

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.

Is it?

Variable - there may be TLS in the server to server path. This is not
guranteed and is the weak point.

Likely there is TLS in the mail client to first server path.

Likely there is TLS in the final server to mail client path.

Was it?

No, not even close. For a long time, pop was unencrypted as was SMTP
from both client and server2server.

TIA

Chris

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