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Setting aside the points in the article which are well taken and, for the most part, things I agree with ... If you run your own mailserver and also if you sen
by rsync 7y ago
Setting aside the points in the article which are well taken and, for the most part, things I agree with ...
If you run your own mailserver and also if you send email to people on that same mailserver, your email never traverses a network.
This use-case is not mentioned in the article, but should be. It is uncommon, currently, but much less cumbersome and rife with pitfalls then trying (and failing) to implement some kind of GPG regime, etc.
We do this at rsync.net - everyone uses the same mailserver, which we connect to over either SSH or HTTPS, and when we send mail to each other it is simply a local copy operation.
- pvg 7y agoWhy do you think it's uncommon? The zillions of people who communicate gmail-to-gmail, in Gsuite, etc never have their mail traverse some external SMTP network.
- rsync 7y agoI guess I am speaking specifically of privacy-minded solutions that don't involve a third party provider. You are correct, of course, but when your email is handled by one of the FANGs there is a wholly new, and different, kind of exposure happening.