Bug#733885: reportbug: Encrypt SMTP connection with TLS as default

2014-01-01 Thread Axel Hübl
But to be realistic: the only mail servers where non-authenticated and non-encrypted connections are useful/not-careless are mail servers @localhost (roughly speaking). And I suppose ISPs support encrypted connections in addition to plaintext if they actually "serve n customers" with n>1. Cheers,

Bug#733885: reportbug: Encrypt SMTP connection with TLS as default

2014-01-01 Thread Sandro Tosi
> The "safest bet" will only be the most-likely setting to work (in the > 90s). But to stress that, nowerdays most of the mail servers (lets say > T-Online for instance) do not even allow non-encrypted client > connections any more. In Italy that's not the case (f.e. Libero/Infostrada), and I'm su

Bug#733885: reportbug: Encrypt SMTP connection with TLS as default

2014-01-01 Thread Axel Hübl
Hello, I can not agree on the argumentation. The "safest bet" will only be the most-likely setting to work (in the 90s). But to stress that, nowerdays most of the mail servers (lets say T-Online for instance) do not even allow non-encrypted client connections any more. The second argument: "what

Bug#733885: reportbug: Encrypt SMTP connection with TLS as default

2014-01-01 Thread Axel Huebl
Package: reportbug Version: 6.4.4 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Since the usual reports via SMTP will be send through untrusted networks, one should enable TLS by default. I would suggest the default answer during the first config "Do you want to encrypt the SMTP connection with TLS (onl