Timeline for Why is Message Labs sending mail in plaintext?
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| Oct 23, 2012 at 16:54 | vote | accept | Andrew Smith | ||
| Oct 22, 2012 at 13:05 | comment | added | MCW | I suspect that this is a question that can only be answered by Message Labs. Suggest that the question be rewritten to something that the Stack Exchange community can answer. | |
| Oct 22, 2012 at 13:01 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 22, 2012 at 11:13 | comment | added | Ramhound | All mail is sent as plaintext. Even if you use SSL its still plaintext, the connection might be encrypted, but the message contents are not encrypted. Everyone that recieve the email have to support encrypting the email contents, otherwise, the contents will be sent as plaintext to somebody. Google does not support sending and recieving encrypted email at this time. | |
| Oct 21, 2012 at 13:58 | comment | added | ewanm89 | or there is an MP or something on MessageLabs board of directors or similar. | |
| S Oct 21, 2012 at 9:58 | history | suggested | Henning Klevjer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 21, 2012 at 2:38 | history | edited | user10211 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 20, 2012 at 23:42 | comment | added | ewanm89 | In the case of MessageLabs they are trading out of the UK, so you could report them to the Office of Fair Trading, or if you want to let the self regulatory authority attempt it first the Advertising Standards Authority. | |
| Oct 20, 2012 at 23:35 | comment | added | ewanm89 | You've just proved why security requires end to end encryption and why email itself can't ever be considered secure. Unfortunately unless they are operating from a country with strict advertising laws (like the UK) there isn't all that much that can be done about it. | |
| Oct 20, 2012 at 21:51 | history | edited | Andrew Smith | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 20, 2012 at 20:33 | history | asked | Andrew Smith | CC BY-SA 3.0 |