On 27/10/2019 06.26, lists wrote:
> My bank insists I use their website for anything secure. I don't get anything 
> in my email that would be a security problem.

I used bank just as an example. Feel free to substitute another
scenario, if you find mine hard to imagine.

> Wouldn't a private key have to be held on your server to do what you want? If 
> so, that hacker can get the key.

No. Definitely not.
Only public key is needed for asymmetric encryption.

> Personally I would harden the server. It sounds like this is a private 
> server. You can use the firewall to vastly limit the countries where your 
> email can be retrieved. That is filter the hell out of all email ports except 
> 25. Besides filtering countries, I have a file of about 30k of ipv4 cidrs 
> from data centers that I block from all email ports except 25 and all the web 
> ports. No eyeballs in datacenters.

Sure, I want to have both:
A secure server, AND encrypted emails. What is wrong with that ?

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