On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 12:19 PM ml+mailop--- via mailop <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020, Tim Bray via mailop wrote:
>
> > Should it be using TLS for outbound connections?  I'm not seeing that?
>
> Received: from mx.mailop.org (mx.mailop.org. [91.132.147.157])
>         by ... with ESMTPS
>         (TLS=TLSv1.3, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, bits=256, verify=OK)
>
> > Received: from mx.mailop.org ([2a03:4000:37:599:d8ce:dff:fee1:81c2])
> >       by herm.doylem.co.uk with esmtps (Exim 4.92 #3 (Debian))
>                                        ^
> Doesn't the "s" mean STARTTLS was used?
>
>
>
RFC 3848 covers this topic: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3848:

*The new keyword "ESMTPS" indicates the use of ESMTP when STARTTLS [1] is
also successfully negotiated to provide a strong transport encryption
layer.*

Yes, it means STARTTLS was used successfully.

Regards,
Ken

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