Re: Email Formatting and Encryption

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1998

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texte = We do not have the ability to retrieve via SSL - the internet modules we use do not have that capability. The way we currently do things is we have our current shopping cart software email the complete order and our database retrieves the email, and processes it.Our database is a point of sale/order entry software which tracks inventory, customers, orders/invoices, processes credit cards, and does accounting. Basicaly, everything a business needs to do for operations. We are now looking to interface to the web in various methods, and your WebCatalog software appears to be able to send emails in a good format, we just need to see if we can somehow get the data encrypted before the email is sent so there is more security - of course encrypted in a manner that we can decrypt it (we have access to standard DES methods, and of course can put source code in).Our current cart software (custom written) does simple encryption before emailing, then we can decrypt it automatically in our database - we are looking at WebCatalog, because we dont want to re-invent the wheel with all these features such as searching, etc. Although we need to make sure before we purchase it ourselves that it has everything we need, the everything the customers we are hosting need.Thanks-Scott Szretter @ EES>>We basically want to encrypt the emails for further credit card security ->>for example, the WebCatalog emails the order with a credit car number in>>it, and it sits on a mail server until our Database connects to the web>>server to retrieve it.>>>>We want to be able to have the email encrypted and then when our databse>>retrieves the emails (automatically) it will decrypt and import.>>It is *very* rare to use email to send credit card numbers. Most people>either use WebMerchant to clear the cards directly on the server, or they>send an email with an https: URL leading to a page that has the credit card>and order info in it.>>What software is being used to pick up the orders? Can it run on the same>server as WebCatalog? If so, it can just read files locally. If not, can>your software access an SSL web page? If so, it can hit a URL on the>WebCatalog site with all the credit info securely served.>>Technical Support | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ====>Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant,>11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster,>San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon>619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Email Formatting and Encryption (Dale LaFountain 1998)
Re: Email Formatting and Encryption (RH Prouty 1998)
Re: Email Formatting and Encryption (PCS Technical Support 1998)
Re: Email Formatting and Encryption (Kenneth Grome 1998)
Re: Email Formatting and Encryption (RH Prouty 1998)
Re: Email Formatting and Encryption (Kenneth Grome 1998)
Re: Email Formatting and Encryption (PCS Technical Support 1998)
Re: Email Formatting and Encryption (Scott Szretter 1998)
Re: Email Formatting and Encryption (Paul Willis 1998)
Re: Email Formatting and Encryption (PCS Technical Support 1998)

We do not have the ability to retrieve via SSL - the internet modules we use do not have that capability. The way we currently do things is we have our current shopping cart software email the complete order and our database retrieves the email, and processes it.Our database is a point of sale/order entry software which tracks inventory, customers, orders/invoices, processes credit cards, and does accounting. Basicaly, everything a business needs to do for operations. We are now looking to interface to the web in various methods, and your WebCatalog software appears to be able to send emails in a good format, we just need to see if we can somehow get the data encrypted before the email is sent so there is more security - of course encrypted in a manner that we can decrypt it (we have access to standard DES methods, and of course can put source code in).Our current cart software (custom written) does simple encryption before emailing, then we can decrypt it automatically in our database - we are looking at WebCatalog, because we dont want to re-invent the wheel with all these features such as searching, etc. Although we need to make sure before we purchase it ourselves that it has everything we need, the everything the customers we are hosting need.Thanks-Scott Szretter @ EES>>We basically want to encrypt the emails for further credit card security ->>for example, the WebCatalog emails the order with a credit car number in>>it, and it sits on a mail server until our Database connects to the web>>server to retrieve it.>>>>We want to be able to have the email encrypted and then when our databse>>retrieves the emails (automatically) it will decrypt and import.>>It is *very* rare to use email to send credit card numbers. Most people>either use WebMerchant to clear the cards directly on the server, or they>send an email with an https: URL leading to a page that has the credit card>and order info in it.>>What software is being used to pick up the orders? Can it run on the same>server as WebCatalog? If so, it can just read files locally. If not, can>your software access an SSL web page? If so, it can hit a URL on the>WebCatalog site with all the credit info securely served.>>Technical Support | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ====>Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant,>11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster,>San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon>619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ Scott Szretter

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Re: Email Formatting and Encryption

1998

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