[fetchmail] hi everyone & a few quick questions

[James Knott]

Sebastian Lechte wrote:
> hey there,
> 
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>>>hehe. i hoped noone would say that.
>>>how can we ever get to the point where all mailservers support tls, when
>>>people always say "makes no sense, the other one doesn't encrypt".
>>
>>This is pointless. For proper mail security, it's end-to-end security,
>>hence a matter of the client. And if the clients en/decrypt the
>>messages, there's no point in the servers doing it again.
> 
> 
> hm, i see... that's definitely not what i thought of, but it opens a lot
> of possibilities. i can push my users to gpg :)

You might also want to consider X.509 certificates, which many (most?) 
mail programs support.