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Re: [ietf-smtp] own mail server: DNS / static IP / no bad reputation?

2020-10-12 06:16:31
On Monday 12 October 2020 13:04:17 CEST, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 3:34 AM Claus Assmann <ietf-smtp(_at_)esmtp(_dot_)org> 
wrote:
If STARTTLS is used, they shouldn't be able to do it, unless they
mess with SMTP (or much worse: with TLS), right?

They intercept outbound port 25, and simply don't advertise STARTTLS.
Only STS will catch that.

See https://toroid.org/vodafone-smtp-mitm for example. Vodafone India makes it so that when mobile phones connect to SMTP servers outside Vodafone's network, they simply don't receive any STARTTLS advertisement.

Arnt

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