Just a FYI...
A little while ago, there was mention that Google/Gmail was not delivering
mail to MXes that didn't support STARTTLS, and indeed I noticed this. Senders
would compose and send a message with apparent success, but Gmail servers
simply wouldn't progress past HELO/EHLO, and didn't inform the sender the
message hadn't been delivered.
Implementing STARTTLS support in qmail-smtpd suddenly got a lot more
important, even for sites that use encrypted mail for anything sensitive.
The other shoe now appears to have dropped. I don't know if this has rolled
out widely, but about a week ago (at least for me) Gmail started silently
roundfiling all incoming mail where STARTTLS was not used in the connection.
They did their usual thing of acknowledging receipt/responsibility for the
messages, but recipients simply wouldn't get them - and not in junk/spam
folders either.
So now qmail-remote STARTTLS support is pretty critical as well.
I'd be interested to hear if others have been noticing this lately. The "but
do it silently" aspect of both of these changes is the most frustrating thing
about it.
Charles
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A little while ago, there was mention that Google/Gmail was not delivering
mail to MXes that didn't support STARTTLS, and indeed I noticed this. Senders
would compose and send a message with apparent success, but Gmail servers
simply wouldn't progress past HELO/EHLO, and didn't inform the sender the
message hadn't been delivered.
Implementing STARTTLS support in qmail-smtpd suddenly got a lot more
important, even for sites that use encrypted mail for anything sensitive.
The other shoe now appears to have dropped. I don't know if this has rolled
out widely, but about a week ago (at least for me) Gmail started silently
roundfiling all incoming mail where STARTTLS was not used in the connection.
They did their usual thing of acknowledging receipt/responsibility for the
messages, but recipients simply wouldn't get them - and not in junk/spam
folders either.
So now qmail-remote STARTTLS support is pretty critical as well.
I'd be interested to hear if others have been noticing this lately. The "but
do it silently" aspect of both of these changes is the most frustrating thing
about it.
Charles
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