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The MTAs are hostile,they are the threat. Email can traverse multiple servers that have nothing to do with the sender or recipient. Competency won't prevent th
by badrabbit 6y ago
The MTAs are hostile,they are the threat. Email can traverse multiple servers that have nothing to do with the sender or recipient.
Competency won't prevent them from allowing backdoor access or sniffing and selling metadata.
- arpa 6y agoMTAs, if configured correctly, do not talk to anything outside your network that is not specified by MX DNS records. Unless we are talking about emails traversing internal networks and even then competent admins do not transmit data in cleartext, so sniffing is out of question. Of course, some metadata is always leaked, but that is the reality of most internet protocols, HTTPs notwithstanding. Now if we're talking about backdoors, it's a game over in any scenario.