Rick,

MSU's central email system has used encryption since the re-design of  
a few years ago. POP, IMAP and the web interface all use encrypted  
connections.

The mail isn't encrypted on the mail servers, maybe that is what you  
are asking about?   I haven't seen a big need for that, at least in  
our department.

Perhaps this would be a good reason to suggest not forwarding email  
to another system (or to keep all participants within mail.msu.edu).

-John
LIR


On May 25, 2007, at 8:52 AM, R E Klingensmith wrote:

> I had a button pushed the other day has been gnawing at me ever  
> since. There is an administrative need to exchange sensitive data  
> via e-mail among administrative types which we all know unencrypted  
> e-mail is clear text for anyone to read. This also could feed the  
> current Google discussion but I do not intend to fan that fire with  
> this question. Has anyone on campus investigated or does anyone  
> support an infrastructure to easily encrypt e-mail for their  
> department, college or larger group?
> Rick
> Rick Klingensmith
> MSU Human Resources