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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Isn't STARTTLS just a hack to provide encryption without having to open
> more ports in the firewall, sort of?

Not at all, STARTTLS is the recommended way to use TLS.  See RFC2595,
section 7.

Andreas.

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