BBC 'vague' reporting again!

[Roland Perry]

In article <20081203171238.321ab6be@peterson.fenrir.org.uk>, Brian 
Morrison <bdm@fenrir.org.uk> writes
>> In theory I can exchange email with my office (aka home) on an ssh
>> tunnel and therefore have no ISP servers, or external unencrypted
>> traffic, involved at all. But it's all a bit too fiddly.
>
>It is? Surely it just happens automagically with very little
>configuration by simply ticking SSL and TLS modes in all the software
>that has them?

I don't have such options on either my email client or email server.
-- 
Roland Perry