After doing some more reading, it looks the sender and recipient needs to 
exchange keys for this to work.

To the members here who have to be HIPPA compliant for email, do you mind 
sharing what you have in place? Do you use a 3rd party to handle this?  How do 
you communicate with users outside your organization and also be compliant?

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Jimmy Tran
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 8:19 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [NTSysADM] is email over SSL same as email encryption?

I ask this because I have a client who wants to be HIPPA complaint with patient 
communication.  I don't know much about compliance with email except that the 
email needs to be encrypted.  Currently, they use email hosted by bluehost via 
imap and over SSL.  This just means the connection to bluehost is encrypted, 
but by the time it hits the patient's inbox, it is no longer encrypted correct?

TIA,

Jimmy

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