The encryption level is determined by the cert. You can generate any type of cert yourself and it will do the same job but it will not be trusted in a browser is not provided by a known ca. The encryption is done by the cert on the mailserver so nothing to install on cf side. Why type of cert did you generate? On May 23, 2012 6:41 PM, "David Phelan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am developing a solution for my company to be able to send email from our > CF 8 application using TLS for security reasons and have a couple things > that I would like to get clarified. > > I looked at the headers of the emails sent by my solution and I noticed > that the transfer encoding was only 7 bit. The certificate that we are > using on the development box is self signed so I am hoping that is the > reason for the low encoding level, but I'm not sure. What I would like to > clarify is the following: > > > 1. Is the self signed certificate the reason for the encoding level? > 2. Will a genuine certificate from a reputable source improve the > encoding level? > 3. Do I need to install a certificate somewhere in ColdFusion? > 4. Is this a limitation of the CF 8 cfmail tag? > 5. Is this something that needs to be addressed on the Exchange server? > 6. Am I off the mark on this completely? > > I have no experience sending secured email from CF so any help or advice > would be appreciated. > > TIA > > -- > David Phelan > ColdFusion/Flex Application Developer > [email protected] > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:351316 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
