How does MTA-STS improve email security?
- By enforcing encryption and certificate validation MTA STS:
- Prevents attackers from intercepting or altering messages.
- Stops downgrade attacks where a server pretends TLS is unavailable also called STARTTLS stripping attacks.
- Ensures confidentiality between servers.
- It keeps the mail ship traveling through protected channels rather than open waters where pirates lurk.
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