[uug] Wiretapping at BYU

Andrew McNabb amcnabb at mcnabbs.org
Wed Feb 24 23:06:46 MST 2010


On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 09:24:01PM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote:
> 
> GMail's smtp server is port 587, TLS.  Alberto recently pointed out on a
> another list that all mail servers should allow their users to use port
> 587 and TLS to submit mail, and port 25 should be restricted to
> server-to-server traffic only.

Server-to-server traffic is really the biggest problem.  As far as I can
tell, almost all server-to-server traffic is unencrypted.

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