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Some devices such as webcams, DVRs, and so on the want to send email may lack TLS features. If this is the case, then do check for firmware updates.
 
If you are sending from outside of our network, iei.e. using another broadband or mobile provider, then you will be using authentication. This involves sending your username and password across the internet to our servers. This should be done with TLS enabled as otherwise your credentials could be seen by other people who could steal your password and cause mayhem!
 
At the moment (2016-12), for legacy reasons, we still do allow customers to send authenticated email without TLS - this is a risk and it is a feature we want to disable in the near future. We will then only allow authenticated email over TLS. If a customer needs to send email when not using our broadband services and cannot support TLS then we'd have to suggest to use the email services provided by the ISP you are connected to.
 
== Mutt ==
Mutt will your your machine's local MTA (ege.g. sendmail, exim, postfix etc.) - so look at the documentation for that for more information.
 
Typically, you can enable TLS with the following entries in your .muttrc:
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