PHP Secure E-mail

[Castle]

Hi,
I just need to know that Is there a way to send secure email through php? I really need to know ? Thank you for your help.

[deveritt]

To connect to an outgoing SMTP server from a PHP script using SMTP authentication and send an email:

Make sure the PEAR Mail package is installed.

• Typically, in particular with PHP 4 or later, this will have already been done for you. Just give it a try.

Adapt the example below for your needs. Make sure you change the following variables at least:

• from: the email address from which you want the message to be sent.
• to: the recipient's email address and name.
• host: your outgoing SMTP server name.
• username: the SMTP user name (typically the same as the user name used to retrieve mail).
• password: the password for SMTP authentication.

For more information see here : http://email.about.com/od/emailprogr...t/et073006.htm

[Trio]

The GnuPG module is much helpfull :

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.gnupg.php

You just need to know the PGP/GPG key correspondingsi\o that you can recipient email address in this case. or you can encrypt the message using SSL:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.openssl.php

[Techguru01]

Very few mail servers have SSL capabilities. If the email is going with an SSL-enabled mail server i think that should be alright . I have used many internet service providers and There was no need to encrypted email capability .

What Trio is saying is good . PGP is the best solution in the data security.