'Today' considers data retention and IMP

[Paul Jakma]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Igor Mozolevsky wrote:

> But these encrypted channels only go between the end user and the 
> server. SMTP-to-SMTP transactions are still done mainly in 
> plaintext.

I don't know about proportion of transactions on the net, but several 
systems ship sendmail to do STARTTLS by default.

regards,
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