[ale] sendmail question

[Carl Forsell]

Thanks... I am going to pas along this info.  I appreciate the input.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Hubbs <Jhubbs at niit.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: Carl Forsell <cforsell at roman.net>; ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
Date: Monday, August 21, 2000 12:41 PM
Subject: RE: [ale] sendmail question


>Carl -
>
> > but they want to document that the material has
> > never left their
> > internal network.  (IPO type stuff)
>
>That's quite a sticky wicket.
>
>The simple fact is, regardless of the behavior of the DNS, sendmail, or any
>other link in the chain, an e-mail will go where it's sent.  The
>organization in question can walk around any such restriction by simply
>adding an Internet recipient, deliberately or not.
>
>If they want to do as you say they say, they need to be relying on
>desk-to-desk encryption and/or separate mail systems for internal and
>Internet mail.
>
>- Jeff
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Carl Forsell [mailto:cforsell at roman.net]
>> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 12:38 PM
>> To: ale at ale.org
>> Subject: Re: [ale] sendmail question
>>
>>
>> but.. their concern is that since they look to us for DNS, is
>> it possible
>> that their e-mail "loops through" our system, and thus a
>> sniffer here could
>> intercept it.   I can't see any reason that it would, or that
>> it should be a
>> concern,  but they want to document that the material has
>> never left their
>> internal network.  (IPO type stuff)
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Robert L. Harris <Robert.L.Harris at rnd-consulting.com>
>> To: Carl Forsell <cforsell at roman.net>
>> Date: Monday, August 21, 2000 11:59 AM
>> Subject: Re: [ale] sendmail question
>>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >Anyone with a sniffer sitting bewteen their email server and
>> the recepiant
>> >could read the email.  Look into using PGP to encrypt email
>> as it is sent.
>> >I do this and it works very well.
>> >
>> >Robert
>> >
>> >Thus spake Carl Forsell (cforsell at roman.net):
>> >
>> >> I have a customer who has has a Linux e-mail server
>> (sendmail) inside
>> their
>> >> firewall and  connects through ISDN to us for internet
>> access.  They have
>> a
>> >> concern about confidential documents that they e-mail
>> within the office.
>> >>
>> >> In the system described above, I can't see how the e-mail
>> could loop
>> through
>> >> us during it's travel - or be intercepted by "outsiders".
>> Am I wrong?
>> Is
>> >> there any way of documenting that a piece of internal
>> e-mail has never
>> >> passed out side of their firewall?
>> >>
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>> >
>> >
>> >:wq!
>> >-------------------------------------------------------------
>> --------------
>> >Robert L. Harris                |  Micros~1 :
>> >Senior System Engineer          |    For when quality, reliability
>> >  at RnD Consulting             |      and security just aren't
>> >                                \_       that important!
>> >DISCLAIMER:
>> >      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
>> >FYI:
>> > perl -e 'print
>> $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
>> >
>>
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