Actually, the mail will be intra-office more than anything. I realize mail isn't encrypted out to the gateway (without some application-level encryption), but all we really need is the communication between their employees to be secure. The employees are at different offices around the country, so a local mail server wouldn't aid the cause.
To use any type of SSL tunneling program, such as stunnel, they'd need to run that on the client as well, right? I don't know if we can have that sorta headache or not .. Jonathan At 08:32 AM 10/3/2002 -0400, you wrote: >>We've come across a need for encrypted pop and smtp sessions. In the >>past we've told people to use the web mail, to encrypt the actual >>transaction (I know this doesn't encrypt the files on the >>disk/etc). But, for this project we need smtp and pop to be encrypted >>(not just the login, the actual data). Does or will Imail support this >>any time soon? > >The real question is, "Does the person requesting this have any clue what >they are requesting?" Most likely, their boss said "Make it secure!" and >they said "Use encrypted SMTP!" and that was that. > >The problem is that even if you have them connect to your server using >secure POP3/SMTP (which can be done using an SSL tunnelling program), >their mail will still go out over the Internet unencrypted. So any >project demanding high security shouldn't be using SSL tunnelling. Any >secure E-mail requires software on *both* ends to handle the >security. PGP might be the best option here. > >>Also, has anyone else had problems when having Imail 7.12 (with HF) force >>SSL on the web interface? It seems like it never loads properly, either >>error messages or hangs. If I don't force it, and I just manually select >>it, then it works fine. Ideas? Either way, we can't use web for this >>project anyway .. just thought it was odd. > >I once did some work with SSL with web messaging, and it was causing >intermittent problems -- after using stunnel (which connects to IMail's >standard web port, not the SSL one), everything worked fine. > > -Scott >--- >Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for >IMail. http://www.declude.com > >--- >[This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus >(http://www.declude.com)] > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
