[ale] sendmail question

[Ken Nagorski]

Well if they are really concerned about it what about pgp? In that case
even if they hacked the firewall and grabbed messages from there they
would get garbage...

Just a thought.
Ken

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Carl Forsell wrote:

> 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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