RE: [WinPcap-users] about email privacy at an ethernet LAN?

[Selcuk Cevher]

i wonder if all the applications used to send emails which are running on 
the machines at an ethernet LAN use Simple Mail Transfer Protochol ? For 
instance, one may use Outlook Express or the other one may use Pine (for 
Linux platforms)...do these applications use encryption? if so, the 
encryption algorithms are known ones ? Furthermore, what is the case for 
Web-based email (Hotmail, Yahoo, etc..)..? i think this kind of emails use 
the http port ? if so, how can i recognize the web-based emails?

thanks
From: "Speirs, William R (William)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: [WinPcap-users] about email privacy at an ethernet LAN?
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:37:37 -0400
Hello-

Sounds to me like you just need a simple packet sniffer, and then look for 
SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) traffic.

You could setup filters with Ethereal to do this for you.

What exactly is the thesis on?

Bill-

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