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[suse-security] Re: Why Install Telnet by Default?

From: Henning Hucke (h_huckeaeon.icebear.org)
Date: Thu Dec 08 2005 - 16:38:28 CST


On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, John Summerfield wrote:

> [...]
> > It's also not secure in that it sends _all_ the data, inbound and
> > outbound, unencrypted.
> >
> Just like postfix, sendmail, exim, qmail, zmailer and every other MTA.

Erm... Depends.

If your MTA client supports it you can send mails to my system through a
TLS tunnel (STARTTLS) and my systems sends mails in the same way if the
remote server supports it.
 
> [...]

Best regards
    Henning Hucke
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