On Aug 17, 2006, at 10:15 AM, Dan Crutcher wrote: > If that doesn't get you anywhere you might ask if _any_ of their > users can retrieve email by any means other than through an > Internet browser. It is hard to imagine that their email system > doesn't support any means of retrieval other than through their own > webmail portal.
Many organizations are indeed only allowing Webmail for several reasons. Webmail is easier to support. You don't have to deal with a myriad of different email programs and clueless users. Security is better on Webmail. Many email programs don't support IMAPs or POPs and many users don't know haw to set them up securely even if the program supports them, so the passwords go across the Web in plain text. With Web access all you need do is serve it on a secure Web page to hide all the information from prying packet sniffers. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2452 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060817/0debe99c/attachment.bin
