On 04/06/2015 01:23 PM, Martijn Brinkers wrote:
> On 04/06/2015 11:34 AM, Arie Koppelaar wrote:
>> Thanks for your quick reply. I was not sure about the configuration
>> possibilities of CipherMail, but Martijn made an important point as
>> well. Why not always encrypt if its possible? I recon it's also a
>> mindset, and the knowledge that receivers do not use such a great
>> solution where mail is decrypted automatically, without any user
>> intervention.
> 
> The good thing of always encrypting is that you cannot forget to
> encrypt. Another reason to always encrypt is that if you only encrypt
> certain sensitive email, any outside attacker knows which mails to
> target since if the email is encrypted, it means that the email is
> sensitive. By encrypting all email, you are no longer leaking this
> information.
> 
> Then again, like you said, not all recipients might like to receive
> every email encrypted if they do not use some kind of automated process.
> 
>> Sebastian, thanks for your suggestions, they could work very well, but
>> would be a little too complicated for our support group.
> 
> Another option would be to use your existing email filter/server to add
> a header when a rule matches and then force encryption if this header is
> found. Whether or not this works depends on whether you are using a mail
> server or mail filter with such capabilities. I think Exchange 2013 for
> example supports transports rules which allow you to add headers when
> some condition matches
> (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd638183%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx).
> Ironport probably also allows you to add headers when some condition

It seems that Exchange 2007 also allows you to add a transport rule
which can add a header when the email is sent by a specific sender and
the recipient is a specific recipient (or member of a recipient list).

Kind regards,

Martijn Brinkers

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