On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 01:58:08PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 01:51:30PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > Does the SMTP server encrypt both between it and the "client" and between > > it > > and the other end destination / source? > > No, not always. Plaintext SMTP is the default for transferring mail > from one server to another. Basically, you should just assume that > anything you send in an email is readable by the entire world, unless > you encrypt the actual message itself (PGP, GnuPG, etc.). >
But these days most use encryption S2S and most clients do too. I log on my server if they use TLS or not and all the big ones definitely do. However between each hop the mail is unencrypted. If it sits at gmail for example google can read the mail. There are a few exception worth mentioning: for example protonmail. If I understand this correctly they use your public key (pgp) and any unencrypted mail will be encrypted before stored. -H -- Henning Follmann | [email protected]
