Hello Having just spent 2 days in a corporate meeting (yawn) discussing the impact of digital signatures on e-commerce etc, I thought I'd raise a few ideas: -) With digital signatures (S/MIME and x509.3 certificates) people and systems can be pretty sure that you are who you say you are. Therefore information being transferred by e-mail can be checked rather better. These certificates are to be held in centralised Corporate directories (LDAP enabled) - Will TB! be able to use this technology - i.e. automatically get someones public key from a corporate LDAP server? -) Classification of e-mails: 2 e-mail headers that are thought necessary are --) 'Sensitivity' (e.g. Public, Company confidential,Restricted access and 'Top secret'). 'Top secret' information will never be e-mailed anywhere - and will be blocked by the gateways /servers. Restricted and above will always be encrypted (automatically) --) Retention (Official,administrative etc) This enables automated e-mail retention based on content rather than age of message. Again - I don't believe that TB! can handle these either (Outlook/Exchange can at least handle the sensitivity flags) Now our organisation is huge and not bleeding edge - so if we are putting infrastructure in place to do these things - I'm sure that others are too. Should TB! include this functionality - and if so - how could it be 'customised' to a corporation requirements? Just a discussion point for version 2 regards, Graham Using The Bat! 1.42 Beta/6 under Windows NT 4.0 (Build 1381, Service Pack 5) -- -------------------------------------------------------------- View the TBBETA archive at http://tbbeta.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double-click HERE: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe from TBBETA, double-click HERE: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed as : [email protected]
