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Re: Swiss ISPs Required to Log and Store Email for Six Months
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ng Pheng Siong)
Mon Apr 14 13:14:48 2003
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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 00:42:52 +0800
From: Ng Pheng Siong <ngps@netmemetic.com>
To: Thomas Shaddack <shaddack@ns.arachne.cz>
Cc: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>, cypherpunks@lne.com,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0304091836590.1934-100000@Zeta>
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 06:41:16PM +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
> I am curious if this applies even on provately-operated servers; eg, if
> you aren't cheap and instead of an account you buy a colocation server,
> with your own mailserver, when the ISP provides only the connection
> itself, without additional services.
Transparent outgoing HTTP proxying has been deployed for years now. Not
too difficult for the ISP to also "provide" transparent outgoing SMTP
proxying.
So, even with your own colo mail relay, you'd still want SMTP-over-SSL
whenever possible, between your desktop(s) and your relay, and between your
relay and elsewhere.
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