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Welcome
to the Government Gateway Secure Mail Service.
What
is the Secure Mail Service ?
This facility allows you to send and receive secure messages
from government departments and services for which you are
registered. The first government department to make use
of the Secure Mail Service is the HMRC. They are
running a limited trial involving 10 offices. You will see
the addresses available if you use the service. The results
of this trial will be used to inform the future developmentand
rollout of a service available to more users. Other departments
will be joining soon.
Terms
and Conditions
- Delivery of messages to your secure mailbox will be regarded
as delivery to you.
- You are obliged to read messages and maintain your mailbox.
- All received and sent messages will be held in your mailbox
until you choose to delete them.
- Your mailbox has a maximum capacity. When this is reached,
you will be notified and you will not receive further messages
until you delete old messages to free up capacity.
- You can set your mailbox to send you a 'you've got mail'
message to an email address of your choice.
- If you use the service to send a secure mail message to
a government department you accept that their most likely
method of reply will be via the Secure Mail Service.
- Some messages will have an expiry date, which is not visible
to you. If you have not read the message by this expiry
date the relevant government department will be notified
and may attempt to contact you by other means.
Terms and
Conditions are specific to each service for which you are
enrolled. You should refer to the website for the respective
overnment department to ensure that you are happy to accept
those for the service you plan to use.
If you have any queries about any of the messages you receive,
please contact the issuing government department.
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