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Google's (outgoing) servers will use STARTTLS if it is advertised by the destination mail server.
by jlgaddis 13y ago
Google's (outgoing) servers will use STARTTLS if it is advertised by the destination mail server.
- ams6110 13y agoYou still have to assume that an ordinary email is a clear-text communication, no matter who you are sending it to, unless you are using PGP or S/MIME.
- psc 13y agoNever knew, do you a have a source on this? Not that I don't believe you, I just want to read more about it. A Chrome extension that shows you if STARTTLS is being used would be really neat.
- ams6110 13y agoThis is a server thing. Your mail client, web-based or otherwise, wouldn't know.
- jlgaddis 13y agoSource: Me, who runs (among other things) mail servers for an ISP. ETA: Received: from mail-pd0-f169.google.com (mail-pd0-f169.google.com [209.85.192.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by MAIL.MYDOMAIN.COM (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1BBFA2909 for <ME@MYDOMAIN.COM>; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:00:32 -0500 (EST)
- iso-8859-1 13y agoHow does Chrome have anything to do with this?