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Using a secure server to capture the details and encrypt them will work for you, but then turning around and emailing the data over a plaintext wire protocol will undo some of that protection.

Is the recipient (boss) email address within your domain, hosted internally, along with your site? I.e., does that email message have to leave the (hopefully) protected confines of your network and venture out into the bad world?

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by shaolindoman (Acolyte) on Jun 21, 2004 at 17:06 UTC
    Well, part of the problem is he doens't have the server set up yet. I've been developing the site on my local host server and he is waiting until I finish everything before he buys the server and sets all of that stuff up. And no, his e-mail is not within our domain and I don't think he would be willing to change because he uses his one e-mail right now for so many clients.
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      Thanks for the details. In that case, the email needs to be encrypted. See the many excellent answers already posted.

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