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Is email encrypted when sending from gmail to yahoo mail?
greattomeetyou
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Is email encrypted when sending from gmail to yahoo mail?
What from yahoo mail to gmail?
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Well, it's encrypted in that it's transmitted via TLS/SSL. It's not encrypted in the sense that Gmail and Yahoo can both view the contents of that email.
How do one check if an email is transmitted via TLS/SSL if I am using other email providers?
Check headers.
it's encrypted in transfer processing, but not encrypted in rest.
Majority providers do transmit the emails via TSL/SSL, if you need to encrypt the email content use software like OpenPGP
While I haven't investigated Yahoo headers to see if they support that, I feel obligated to remind that nothing is ever secure at Yahoo
Except MY old account that they refuse to give me access to! sigh
I believe this is accurate but of course Google and Yahoo have no obligation to encrypt email sent between themselves. They probably do because its the right thing to do, but you're depending on the kindness/competence of strangers.