If your CEO is concerned he should be using PGP, as Paul suggested. It's not the job of the storage engine/mta to encrypt messages for storage.
Jon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guntis Bumburs Sent: 28 January 2008 09:30 To: DBMail mailinglist Subject: Re: [Dbmail] mail encryption On Monday 28 January 2008 10:33:59 Sim Zacks wrote: > This is true, but if I send the CEO a message and I don't encrypt it > then it will be sitting in his dbmail account without encryption. There should be some company's security politics concerning security sensitive information. So all your users and business partners would use Certificate or PGP encryption for sensitive data. The whole system security level is determined by the lowest security level of its component. when someone sends you clear text email it travels across internet in clear text. So this is your problem. > > Sim > > > > 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 _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
