Re: [exim] Should MX offer TLS ?

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Tony Finch wrote:

| Yes, though you'd want to use client and server certificate verification
| for the MTA-to-MTA links

Preferably yes. But surely opportunistic encryption is better than
sending in the clear.


| which means you'd need a list of hosts that are members of this secure
| federation to avoid interop problems. This seems to me like a fairly
| obvious idea so I expect there are already companies doing it - though I
| don't know of any.

We have a department that wishes to do this (certificate checks)
with other sites they collaborate with...

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Chris Edwards, Glasgow University Computing Service