I don't like the idea of employees forwarding their corporate mail to non-corporate addresses. If you have no control over the system they are forwarding their mail to, you can't be sure of the security of that system. For example, just look at all the security problems that hotmail has over the years. I wouldn't want confidential email hanging out on hotmail's servers. It would be much safer to set up a web interface to the mail system. At least then you can audit that system for security holes.
-Ben -----Original Message----- From: Marcus James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 6:44 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... -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Save up to $160 by signing up for NetZero Platinum Internet service. http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=N2P0602NEP8
