Zoho Mail has new secure sending option
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Zoho Mail now has a built-in option for sending secure emails that will requires an OTP to view. Also the option to have it expire after X days or a certain date.
They call it SecurePass.
https://www.zoho.com/mail/help/confidential-email.htmlThis is what the receiver sees in his inbox after getting a SecurePass email.
After you click on the link above.
And then the validation OTP (sent via email).
Now the receiver can view the email in the browser.
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Microsoft added something similar last year to their default setup.
Though MS makes you create a Microsoft Account if you don't already have one using the email address that was emailed to.
A nice thing about MS's solution - if you are sending to another O365 account - the email is simply delivered to the mailbox - no one even realizes it was 'sent securely.'
I wonder if Google has added this functionality to their base workplace or whatever it's called accounts?
Nice to see some of the piss taken out of Zix and other "secure email" providers.
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@Dashrender Good to know.
One purpose of the OTP is that you can't forward the email and have another person read it.
It's a good tool to have.
Zoho support S/MIME (end-to-end encryption) too and we have it. It works fine but the receiving part need to have it setup as well. So that's where it fails.
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@Pete-S said in Zoho Mail has new secure sending option:
@Dashrender Good to know.
One purpose of the OTP is that you can't forward the email and have another person read it.
Not directly forward - sure, but you could screen shot it and forward that to someone.
I assume the OTP is more so that people don't have to create accounts in the Zoho system.
In the MS system you have to create an account, same goes for Zix, even if you will only ever read this one message on that system.
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@Dashrender said in Zoho Mail has new secure sending option:
@Pete-S said in Zoho Mail has new secure sending option:
@Dashrender Good to know.
One purpose of the OTP is that you can't forward the email and have another person read it.
Not directly forward - sure, but you could screen shot it and forward that to someone.
I assume the OTP is more so that people don't have to create accounts in the Zoho system.
It looks like Zoho had the forwarding thing specifically in mind since they mentioned that on their website. A lot of people will forward messages without thinking about the sensitive information that is usually longer down in the mail. I've seen that a lot when I get emails forwarded to me with information that is clearly not intended for me.
In the MS system you have to create an account, same goes for Zix, even if you will only ever read this one message on that system.
Yeah, I hate that. It's just to get more users. I love OTP though.
I'll have to check how these secure feature works with sending huge mail attachments as well. Haven't tried it yet.
