Re: Web Tool Announcement: ismymailsecure.com

[Kari Hurtta <hurtta+bugtraq () leija mh fmi fi>]

Holger Rabbach <hrabbach () crossroad-networks com>: (Wed Aug 18 12:59:19 2010)
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> Dear Bugtraq community,
>
> I am happy to announce the immediate availability of a web based email
> security testing tool at http://www.ismymailsecure.com. The tool is an
> end-user friendly way to determine if the mail servers for a certain
> email address support the STARTTLS capability to encrypt the email
> transfer between servers. While most email providers have frontends that
> use encryption, the actual email transfers via SMTP are often not secure

It seems not check if certificate returned is signed by trusted CA.