in 2009 decided to use a new way for their business customers to send confidential information through emails. One of their top priorities when switching was to make it easier for the end user to use. They switched to Voltage Security's Securemail, which eliminates the need for certificates. The process is not completely free of steps. The user is still prompted to give some sort of identifying information, but they are free from downloading any certificates. In 2009 the bank was sending 60,000 secure emails a month using Voltage.
I found this project interesting. I have never sent a secure email before, I am not sure if I have needed to yet. I still find it to be an important topic to learn about. I can see the importance of sending secure emails, with the business environment becoming global and projects are being worked on all over the world. You will eventually need to send some sort of information securely.
I had a few issues with thunderbird. After speaking with the help desk and granting them access to my computer we solved the problem and I learned something about email settings. Come to find out the problem was not in the setting in thunderbird, but the settings in outlook. I have my gatorlink email set up in outlook and the income setting was set as a pop3. When you incoming setting is set to pop your emails are taken off of the server and saved on your computer. So when I clicked send/receive on outlook it was taking them off the server and storing them on my computer. In turn I was losing my received emails on thunderbird. The only issue I have now with keeping all my emails on the server is that I am limited to the space UF grants me, where before I was limited in the space on my computer.
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