From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com)
Date: Fri Oct 14 2005 - 08:52:57 CDT

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On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 03:46:52PM +0200, Robert Felber wrote:

> Why should a cleartext protocol (POP) be more secure than the option of
> forwarding mail from the gateway to internal vial SMTP TLS/SSL? Unless there
> are POP TLS/SSL implementations.
>

TLS != "security". Do not confuse confidentiality with "security", TLS
can keep message content confidential and yet be less "secure" by, for
example, having remote command execution exploits against its implementation.

This said, inbound SMTP should be safe enough with either Postfix, or
an up to rev server of some other variety.

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        Viktor.

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