SPAM!!

[Pat Lashley]

--On Sunday, November 30, 2003 23:36:22 +0100 Bernd Walter <ticso at cicely12.cicely.de> wrote:

> Thinking about this is woth nothing anyway.
> I know for shure that spammers are already sniffing SMTP transfers to
> gather addresses.

Sounds like a good reason to enable TLS on all the SMTP servers
under your control...

Anonymous TLS won't stop a man-in-the-middle; but it will block plain
snooping.  And it's generally pretty easy to do.  The more sites that
implement it, the more secure the mail infrastructure is from random
snooping.  (Of course, to get anything approaching real security, the
server and client need to check each other's certs.  Which requires a
certificate handling infrastructure...)



-Pat