Can Email2 co-exist with basic email?

The Secure Messaging Platform does not your replace basic email that you use every day. It is not a new email client, nor does it replace your email server or service with your current network infrastructure or ISP. On the contrary, it works closely with basic email, enhancing and strengthening the existing weak areas. A Secure MS Outlook Toolbar can be installed for use with existing email clients, and users can continue to use their existing email addresses. Going secure does not preclude users from continuing to use basic email.

A user’s existing email client can store and display both secure and basic email messages without conflict; the Toolbar provides all of the extended functionality when a secure message is selected. The current implementation actually relies on existing email infrastructure: secure notification messages are sent using basic email and then provide access to the Secure Message Center (Webmail) and the Delivery Slip – seamless for MS Outlook user.

After a secure notification message arrives, the user can either follow the link to the Secure Message Center (Webmail), or, if using the MS Outlook Toolbar, the secure notification message is automatically converted to the actual secure message content (retrieving the content securely from the Secure Messaging Platform over HTTPS).

You can think of it as a platform that can be implemented over top of the existing email architecture. It functions in conjunction with basic email structure to strengthen it and provide more productivity features to the end user. It does not replace basic email, it enhances it:

• Keep using your existing email address.
• Keep using your existing Internet Service Provider (ISP).
• Keep using your existing email programs (e.g. MS Outlook).
• Keep using your existing email server programs (e.g. Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office 365, Zimbra, etc.).
• Interoperates with existing email network infrastructures and protocols.
• Works with any existing or new technology being developed for traditional email (PKI, IRM, Archiving, Auditing, etc.).

The core functionality of basic email remains unchanged. Pre-existing basic email messages are still accessible and usable, (within the limitations of the basic email system, of course). Likewise, basic email messages created or received after implementation of the Secure Messaging Platform still function the same as those created or received before.