Alan wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2 Aug 1997 Dick_Wall @
stratus .
com wrote:
>
> > The question is ...
> >
> > I'm getting approached by various groups in my company, that want to
> > use Web oriented email clients, to access our email servers. That is,
> > they want to use the clients from the Internet points, to access servers
> > on the trusted/internal side of our network. They'd like us therefore,
> > to allow http access through the firewall. We don't allow that now, and
> > I don't plan to allow it in the future.
> >
> > Is there a secure means for providing such email access?
>
> Yes.
>
> Tell them to spend the $20/month and get an off-site e-mail account at a
> local ISP. Then forward their mail to that account.
>
> (Sounds like yet another product that management had been told they "gotta
> have". Making e-mail web based sounds like a perfect way to make it even
> less usable and more inflexable. Sounds like a perfect fit for most of
> the management I have known...)
>
> alan @
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Are you all telling me that there is no way to simply route
in and outbound mail to other mail / SMTP servers
through a firewall without compromising internal mail security?
I really appreciate a response to this one. Thanks.
--
Alan M. Goldberg
HJ Heinz Company of Canada Ltd./Intuit Bus Serv & Tech
Bradford, ON CA
http://home.istar.ca/~agoldber - email:agoldber @
istar .
ca
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