Overview
Secure Mail will allow you to send emails more securely,
if you have installed a secure certificate. You must install a secure
certificate to use Secure Mail.
The internet is not a secure medium for sending
information, unless the information is sent over a secure server.
Normally, any text (such as your credit card number) sent from a user's
browser to your server is sent as plain text. This means that someone
could potentially intercept the information and read it. A secure server
encrypts the information before it leaves users' browsers, so that even
if data is intercepted, it's useless.
Once Secure Mail is enabled, you can use form mail to
embed forms on secure pages, so that your users can send you information
without worrying about interception by malicious persons.
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To access the Secure Mail Manager:
Click the Secure Mail icon
in the Control Panel.
To enable secure mail:
Once you have a secure certificate installed, click
Enable Secure Mail.
A confirmation will be displayed, stating that your request will
be processed within ten (10) minutes.
To test secure mail:
Click Test Secure Mail. The
system will run a test of Secure Mail and if it is successful, you will
receive a confirmation.
Sending Secure Mail
From your website, make sure that the link to the
page the form is in is created with a full path that includes
https://. For example, to access a page called mail.html, you would
have to link to https://<domain>/mail.html, NOT http://<domain>/mail.html,
or simply mail.html. You will use https:// again in your form call.
Your code will look similar to the following:
<form method="post" action=https://<server>/<domain>/cgi-bin/formmail.pl>
<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value ="<user>@<domain>">
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="whatever">
<input type="hidden" name="return_link_URL" value=https://<server>/<domain>/
yourpage.html>
<input type="hidden" name="return_link_title" value="Back to your Page">
</form>
In the code above, <server>
represents the name of the server your domain rests on. You were
given this information when you received your account setup
information. <domain> is the full name of
your domain.
You may include any of the other fields normally
used with form mail.
Secure E-Mail is included in all our
hosting
packages.
