Like others who have commented, we believe weak encryption is worse than no 
encryption, so we have disabled TLSv1 and TLSv1.1 everywhere in our email 
systems, allowing only TLSv1.2 and TLSv1.3. 

Best regards to all, 
Mark 
_________________________________________________________________ 
L. Mark Stone, Founder 
North America's Leading Zimbra VAR/BSP/Training Partner 
For Companies With Mission-Critical Email Needs 


From: "Brotman, Alex via mailop" <mailop@mailop.org> 
To: "Sidsel Jensen" <sidsel.jen...@open-xchange.com>, "<mailop@mailop.org>" 
<mailop@mailop.org> 
Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2022 1:14:17 PM 
Subject: Re: [mailop] [EXTERNAL] Disabling TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for MTA to MTA 
communication 



One of the things I find interesting here is that the question is whether to 
disable the protocol version. We’re not limited to just enable/disable for 
those versions to get the attention of the sender (assuming they’d even notice 
if they were going clear-text). A receiver could also impact them by limiting 
the number of messages per session, tarpit the sessions, number of messages per 
$time-period, or place the messages in the spam folder, etc. Could we 
name-and-shame for larger entities? Or report them to some entity that tracks 
security compliance? 



-- 

Alex Brotman 

Sr. Engineer, Anti-Abuse & Messaging Policy 

Comcast 





From: mailop <mailop-boun...@mailop.org> On Behalf Of Sidsel Jensen via mailop 
Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 6:34 AM 
To: <mailop@mailop.org> <mailop@mailop.org> 
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [mailop] Disabling TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for MTA to MTA 
communication 





Hi MailOps 





We were having a discussion on the possibility to disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for 
MTA to MTA communication, and based on the numbers we've seen so far, it 
doesn't look that far fetched. 





What's the common consensus in the mail community about this currently? 





It's already been disabled for our customers towards fx. imap and smtp, and we 
all agree those pesky old versions should be phased out, sooner rather than 
later, but have you also disabled it for MTA to MTA communication as well or 
are you still considering it? And what scenarios are currently holding you 
back? 





And what about PLAIN - do you still allow that as the fallback option or are 
you also considering disabling that? 





I'm looking forward to read your replies :-) 





Kind Regards, 


Sidsel Jensen 





Architect of Deliverability and Abuse @ Open-Xchange 

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