Web mail access from work WAS: RE: [Mimedefang] Looking for an example of obfuscated HTML

[Keith Dowell]

thats a good point - i guess what has helped me is that the previous it
director (now my boss) had everyone convinced that he was doing nothing but
monitoring each and everything they do web related - therefore im in a
position that most all of them are scared to death to do anything NON work
realted over the web ;)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cormack, Ken" <kcormack at acs.roadway.com>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:10 AM
Subject: Web mail access from work WAS: RE: [Mimedefang] Looking for an
example of obfuscated HTML


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Dowell [mailto:keith at rogersmfg.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:42 AM
> To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Looking for an example of obfuscated HTML
>
> <snip>
>
> >  you'll get a few complaints at first if they arent used to this - just
> take
> >  a few minutes and set them up with a free web mail account and they'll
be
> >  happy (usually they already have one - in which case i commonly get 'I
> >  didn't know i could access it from work')
>
> The problem with allowing access to external mail resources (HTML-based,
or
> otherwise) such as Yahoo and Hotmail accounts, is that they are great
> avenues for completely bypassing your email server's defenses against
> virus-infected attachments.  Yes, it may be company policy that client PCs
> have anti-virus software and so on, but server-based defenses at the
> front-door, are still desired.
>
> In my shop, the only accounts that can access external mail sites (we
block
> them at the web proxy) are those of us involved in troubleshooting email
> delivery problems, so that we can quickly send test messages between our
> work addresses and external domains, when troubleshooting delivery
problems.
> That's just 5 admins out of 15,000 users.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Ken
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