-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If your company has a policy about transmitting sensitive or confidential data in place, you have no problem [ie. sensitive and/or confidential data should be encrypted or delivered by hand] then Email forwarding is not a problem. Yes, it may be intercepted but if it is not sensitive or confidential - so what. Web access to internal email is another whole story with security problems. It can be done but how much of a budget do you have for it. Email forwarding is relatively free and definitely easy. The biggest problem is employees forgetting that their private Email boxes have a finite size [ 5 or 10MB] and all mail is rejected after it is full. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcus James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 18:44 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 > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBPRtQIz8Qy3KPGlCLEQIR4QCg65+pYgUfAGfSp9ryywEl5sBZ+coAnjQ3 y71LLqV85OEbB/yq+yiyOPYb =I6ek -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
