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E-Commerce Encrypted Email Component (ASP Encrypted Email)

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Question:
I am currently developing an ASP ('classic' with vbscript) ecommerce Website that will have a shopping cart/basket. This requires customer entered payment/card details to be emailed from within the web application to the retailer, currently using Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message") and the smtp service available to the domain from the host. The site will have protection with SSL. The site will be hosted on Windows 2003 servers but the host does not offer any form of email encryption facility. What I am looking for is a setup where I can easily 'load' the components onto the host/site via their control panel. Running exe installations on the remote shared server is not currently an option. The component needs to provide a means to encrypt the html body text of emails which are sent from the web application to the retailer. The retailer then needs to be able to easily decrypt the message. They will be using an email client such as Microsoft's Outlook/Outlook Express.

Can you recommend from your product range and advise me of costs.

Answer:
The Chilkat Mail ActiveX ($99 for a 1-Developer license, $149 for 2-4 supported developers, $199 for site-wide) would provide the ability to send and receive encrypted email. New-version upgrades are always free, and the license applies to all platforms: .NET, ActiveX (classic ASP), C++, Perl, Ruby, Python, etc.

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