Technical execution

Virtual environment

Secure Email supports an environment with multiple virtual instances. Each instance has its own domains. Instances have individual directories that include configurations, logs and secure message data. Also database tables and spool directories are instance specific. Each instance must have an IP-address (unique or shared with other instances), a fully qualified domain name and a certificate for that name.

Policy management

Secure Email can be integrated into any e-mail system in use, making its use completely transparent to the sender. The Secure Email server acts as a SMTP gateway either only for messages that are to be encrypted, or for all outgoing email traffic. In the first case, the existing e-mail system routes messages marked with the designated secure extension (default: ‘.s’) to the Secure Email server, and in the latter, Secure Email recognizes messages that need to be encrypted according to policy management. (See chapter 5.2: Installation)

It is possible to define the extension that denotes encrypted e-mail messages per instance.