2008/8/1 Kae Verens <kae at verens.com>:
> Brendan Kehoe wrote:
> SSL for email is probably useless where security is concerned, as when the
> emails are in transit between servers, they're mostly un-encrypted, and when
> stored on the various machines along the route to the mailbox, they're also
> unencrypted.
You would still want to use an encrypted connection while you log in
to your email account and your user name and password are sent to the
server, though...
--
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