Re: [exim] host use tsl on port 25?

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:07:58PM -0500, Walt Reed wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:54:54PM -0500, Dean Brooks said:
> >
> > Not sure why they would be advertising TLS to the outside world without
> > some sort of auth first
>
> Maybe to provide at least some level of privacy in case there are
> sniffers inbetween (such as various three-lettered agencies...)

There is no guarantee of privacy as you never know what will happen
to the message following its delivery.

As far as overhead, TLS can add a significant load on high-volume servers
in our experience. In a cluster environment such as ours, the load
gets spread out quite a bit, but given that the privacy issue was not
effective in any way, we turned it off.

To each their own I suppose.

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Dean Brooks
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