The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced a new project named STARTTLS Everywhere that aims to provide guidance to server administrators on how to set up a proper email server that runs ...

Facebook is pushing for more email providers to use STARTTLS, a technology that encrypts emails as they pass between servers and clients, after an analysis showed that any SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer ...

Researchers have some good and bad news about the availability of secure e-mail. Use of STARTTLS and three other security extensions has surged in recent months, but their failure rate remains high, ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has backed VPN provider Golden Frog’s FCC filing that accuses ISPs of stripping out STARTTLS instructions from email messages. As Net Neutrality debates swirl, ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched HTTPS-encryption initiative Let's Encrypt two years ago with Mozilla and Cisco. Now it's turning its attention to email servers with a new project ...

Postfix has an option to require TLS on the submission port, so that if there is a downgrade attack and TLS isn't used, the connection is refused. You can also use a stricter set of cipher suites.