I agree with you from a Security Standpoint that POP has certain risks, but maybe a better topic for management is the additional headache POP is from a support standpoint.. Imagine if you will a Marketing person gets a new machine at home, this person sets up outlook to download via POP3, instead of choosing to leave the messages on the server they opt to download everything and remove (could be a simple mistake) however when they come into work the next day all their email is gone. Now you could restore from backup which = man-hours or you could have the guy bring in his machine and copy all the data from it which = man hours. However if you are running Exchange this Marketing guy could have accessed via OWA or VPN, or even if you were not using Exchange VPN or some 3rd Party web tool..
In other words Pop = Bad Joshua Joshua Morgan Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 1:52 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: POP = Bad? -- SMTP = Good? List, This might be more appropriate for a firewall/security list but it involves email and I don't belong to one of those yet so I'll post my question here. I'm curious as to how many of your companies allow internal clients to access POP mail externally. The reason I'm asking is because I see POP mail as security risk. Let me explain. Our firewall strips all but a few attachments from our incoming SMTP email. With POP however attachments cannot be striped leaving a hole for new virus that aren't detectable yet by our virus software. I'm going to try to talk management into letting me block POP. Is blocking incoming POP something other company do? Is there some other way to secure incoming POP mail? Matt _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
