thus Dennis Peterson spake: > Bart Silverstrim said: > >>On May 5, 2005, at 8:02 AM, Matt Fretwell wrote: >> >> >>>Daniel J McDonald wrote: >>> >>> >>>>as it is harder to scan those messages for viruses >>> >>> Nonsense. Mail is mail. If you are running a mailserver, it should be >>>able to cope with all types of mail, irrelevant of >>>(creation|submission) >>>method. >> >>But...if they're using webmail, it bypasses your mail server. It would >>entirely depend on how "up to date" the webmail company's scanner is >>and the virus scanner on your user's desktop is...unless you're using a >>web proxy with malware scanner. > > > My webmail is configured to use our standard smtp servers for all > inbound/outbound mail. It really isn't all that difficult. > > dp
your webmail may be configured to use your smtp servers. but i don't think that company X is able to configure hotmail to use company X's mailservers so that company X is sure that its employees use this safe webmail... ;) -- Timo Schoeler | http://macfinity.net/~tis | [EMAIL PROTECTED] //macfinity -- finest IT services | http://macfinity.net Key fingerprint = F844 51BE C22C F6BD 1196 90B2 EF68 C851 6E12 2D8A There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't. _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
