On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:08:22PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 01:25:38PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> > Even if exim spoke SSL to the smarthost, the email would still be
> > plaintext between there and the originator.  At least, I think that's
> > how it works.  If you really want to hide the contents of your email,
> > encrypt the actual message ... of course, that still doesn't hide the
> > sender or recipient.
> 
> So they know where it came from and is going to.  Whoop-de-doo...

...sometimes that's as valuable as knowing the contents of the
message... ask your friendly neighbourhood intelligence agency :-)

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