[Mimedefang] OT: Better file transfer system?

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 10:51, WBrown at e1b.org wrote:

> > Or you could use SFTP. 
> 
> You're correct. Some of the traffic should probably be encrypted since it 
> may contain student information. 
> 
> One user was trying to send a database via email that got blocked. I went 
> apesh!t on them when I found out it was a payroll system database and 
> wasn't even zipped, let alone encrypted.

Email at least makes a token effort to maintain privacy with
file level permissions that is hard to duplicate with other
ad-hoc file exchanges.  And, you've probably gone to some trouble
to screen viruses that would pass other methods.   What was the
problem with email again?

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com