john:
> We need to ensure that emails sent by some of our users are encrypted 
> (medical records, reports, etc) before they are sent.
> 
> We only accept out going mail from our local users by submission (port 
> 587).
> 
> I realize that this is really the job of the MUA, but I would like to 
> check that emails are in fact encrypted before being sent. If an 
> unencrypted email is encountered transmission would be denied with a 
> suitable message/code. One other thing that we might also need to do is 
> to move the supplied subject into the body of the message and substitute 
> a generic heading, this to prevent the patient name showing up in plain 
> text.

"Enforcing encryption" and "hiding the subject in the body" are not
built-in features of Postfix (or other conventional MTA). It is what
one would expect to find in specialized MIME or PGP gateways. There
are a few listed at the www.postfix.org site, but the list isn't
updated frequently.

        Wietse

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