On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:28, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
Another reason might be that some people might have privacy issues with their correspondence being stored on intermediate mail server they have no controll of.
For such an issue encryption is a better solution.
I ment even when using encryption. Message in transmission (usually) is not stored on the disk. However message that is relayed might be stored on the disk on the relay host. As we all know, deleting something from hard drive is not trivial task (if possible at all). For somebody who gets hold of such a hard drive, the fact that two persons were communicating in the past might be valuable information, even without being able to see content of the correspondence (encryption is not going to save you there). Anyhow this belongs to rather extreme area of security/privacy. There are entire books written on it, and anything that I attempt to put in a paragraph or two will be so full of holes that it wan't illustrate any usable point.
Anyhow, even without this (rather extreme, and not applicable to vast majority of people) security/privacy thing, having control on how your email is sent to recipient's MX might be of value to the sender.
-- Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@xxxxxx> Pollard Banknote Limited Systems Administrator 1499 Buffalo Place Tel: (204) 474-2323 ext 276 Winnipeg, MB R3T 1L7
