On Monday 28 January 2008 09:01:09 Sim Zacks wrote: > I've read a lot about password encryption with dbmail, but does (or can) > dbmail support encrpytion of the actual messages? > Our CEO and CFO are both very concerned with the idea of switching to > IMAP because it would make it simple for the system administrators to > read their email. They aren't as concerned with sniffers and stuff like > that because that would require constant vigil. They are concerned that > someone can open the mysql database (or go into the dbmailadministrator > web front end) and query the database. > > I was thinking that mail clients generally support SSL, which leads me > to believe that if the user's public key is stored on the server then > the dbmail should be able to encrypt all messages going into his box > before they are stored and then the client will be able to open it with > their private key. > > Is something like this in place already? > > Thank you > Sim > _______________________________________________ > DBmail mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail >
Hello, in MUA you can use Certificates to Sign and Encrypt mail messages. The messages will be stored encrypted in dbmail database. So there will be no security treat even if someone gets full read access to your database. -- Best Regards, Guntis Bumburs Rixtel, SIA www.rixtel.com 29251044 67504856 _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
