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Fedora Linux 43 exposes 20-year-old Microsoft Outlook security failure

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Fedora Linux 43 exposes 20-year-old Microsoft Outlook security failure

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

A Fedora 43 and Dovecot 2.4 upgrade may have uncovered an old Microsoft Outlook behavior where SSL/TLS settings allegedly failed to properly encrypt POP3 email connections.

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Forcing encryption reduced my spam by about 99%. Spambots almost never have certificates.

It also prevented email being delivered from Nintendo, because they can’t tie two network wires together.

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