Secure Mail

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.

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.