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Re: Transparent hijacking of SMTP submission...


From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 21:51:56 -0500 (EST)

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Herrin" <bill () herrin us>

that's essentially a downgrade attack on my ability to use
encryption
which seems to be in pretty poor taste frankly.


I'm not sure I follow your complaint here. Are you saying that Comcast
or a
Comcast customer in Washington state stripped the STARTTLS verb from
the
IPv4 port 587 SMTP submission connection between you and a third
party?

Yup; that's what he's saying.  This was in the technical press earlier this
week -- or the end of last.

Cheers,
-- jra
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