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minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·8 months ago Email in transit is not encrypted That there is what I call horse shite. SMTPS and STARTTLS are a thing and if you are using a provider who doesn’t use it you need to change.
minus-squarejmcs@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up9·8 months agoThat still requires the email to be in clear text before it gets re-encrypted by Proton mail. SMTPS gets terminated at your email provider’s boundary.
minus-squaresweng@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoPgp does not encrypt the whole email, only part of it.
That there is what I call horse shite. SMTPS and STARTTLS are a thing and if you are using a provider who doesn’t use it you need to change.
That still requires the email to be in clear text before it gets re-encrypted by Proton mail. SMTPS gets terminated at your email provider’s boundary.
Unless it’s pgp
Pgp does not encrypt the whole email, only part of it.