> Since the credit card information is transferred by e-mail, what's the best
> way to get this information to my box safely? What alternatives have you
> implemented to retrieve this information for charging purchases?
We don't use the "built-in send order information with CC info via
e-mail", instead our data is encrypted on the fly and written directly to
our database. All access to our database is via SSL or SSH.
If you are going to use the built-in mail, I would suggest adding PGP
encryption to it.