Archdiocese of Seattle Secure Web Mail

Some of our schools and parishes are experiencing IT issues when communicating via email to the Chancery offices. The Chancery IT Department has shared a new protocol to protect and secure communication through email.

New Email Server for the Chancery:
Secure web mail
http://www.seattlearchdiocese.org/as...urewebmail.pdf

Archdiocese of Seattle Secure Web Mail
In order to protect the personal and financial information of Archdiocesan employees, volunteers, students, and others who do business with us, we have implemented encryption requirements on email messages leaving our mail server. If a message is sent which contains privileged or confidential information, the message must be transmitted in an encrypted form.

If your incoming mail server supports TLS (Transport Layer Security; a form of encryption commonly used when exchanging secure information across the internet), you will not see any change in how email messages are sent and received with Archdiocesan Employees. However, if our mail server is unable to establish an encrypted connection to yours, you will instead receive a message notifying you that a secure email has been sent. This message will contain instructions for how to access the information you were sent.

If you have not previously created a Secure Web Mail account, the first message you receive will be a welcome notice. Depending on how you view your email (on your phone, via a web browser, in Outlook, in Thunderbird, etc.), the message may be slightly different in appearance, but will look similar to the below, and will contain the same information.

Please review the attachments below with the directions of how to best access the Secure Web Mail site. If you have persistent issues, please contact Chancery Help Desk at 206-382-4351 or helpdesk@seattlearch.org Thank you!