Sounds like a policy issue. If users are doing this so they can get their email "on the road" or from home, it would probably be worthwhile to set up a web-mail interface instead. Email IS inherently unsecure (think post-office personnel reading your postcards). What needs to be weighed is whether you can create a MORE secure email access point than, say, hotmail, which has had its own problems... ;)
Glenn -----Original Message----- From: Marcus James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 3:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: email fowarding Here's the situation: One of the companies I work at enables certain users to foward their email to an external address of their choice. So internal email sent to an employee may be fowarded externally to a hotmail account for example. What I am trying to determine is what the best practices are in this regard. My gut-feel says that this is not a good idea since email is "inherently insecure" and may be intercepted and so on and so forth. But on the other hand is this such a big deal? I'm not sure. A second question: Would forcing users to use a web interface to access their email instead be "more secure"? Thanks...
