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rsecora
on Aug 7, 2020
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And if you can reach the MTA, that means the email itself is unencrypted. So the MTA can monitor the email content.
yegle
on Aug 7, 2020
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This goes both ways. If I want to send an email to someone but their MTA doesn't do encryption, I might choose to encrypt the
content
of my email, but I have no way to hide my FROM.
Blocking the MTA server is not unheard of.
rsecora
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Right, metadata is not encrypted for the MTA. That's the flaw in the email protocol for full anonymity, even using PGP.
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