End-to-End Encrypted Emails

[johannes]

Gmail enterprise users can now send end-to-end encrypted emails: https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/enterprise-gmail-users-can-now-send-end.html
Is such a feature possible for DirectAdmin?

 

[Richard G]

DA is a hosting panel. Gmail is a specific e-mail service.
One could use an e-mail client like Thunderbird which has PGP build in.

In my opinion it's up to the appropriate software developpers to provide such option.
So not the hosting panel, but for example Roundcube, as that is the webmail system. Or Exim to put mails encrypted in the mailboxes, or the e-mail clients (like Thunderbird does), so customers can choose whether or not to use encryptions.

So that is why my choice was no. I wouldn't know what DA would have to do with it. DA is basically just a shell for other applications.

 

[kristian]

That gmail offering looks like just another "it's encrypted to everyone, but you need to use this special web service to read the encrypted version" solution. There's been many over the years. It's in my opinion a bad solution. Encrypted e-mail should stay in the e-mail client, such as already mentioned PGP. The downside of using PGP is that it's not as simple to get started with for end users.