[Cialug] TLS in Postfix

[David Champion]

TLS in your MTA is OK, I can tell you from experience that it's a pain to
actually require TLS.

Most people (I assume this is what you've done) only have it set to accept
TLS connections when available, but will fall back to plain text when it's
not available. Chances are the email message is stored in plain text,
possibly in several places along the chain if there's any mail filtering or
caching appliances involved.

Because of this, TLS isn't really a viable alternative to email encryption.

-dc


On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Nicolai <nicolai-cialug at chocolatine.org>wrote:

> FYI: cialug.org now supports TLS in Postfix, and logs show it's being
> used successfully.
>
> Longer-term, we (the Internet) need strong authenticated crypto built-in,
> but TLS is a good stepping stone.
>
> Nicolai
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