If I ran the gateway I'd never allow password-protected ZIP files through as attachments.
-- Al Iverson www.aliverson.com (312)725-0130 On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Howard F. Cunningham <howa...@macrollc.com> wrote: > HI > > This is a great conversation... > > In regards to sending password protected zip files, I am aware of several > spam filters that inspect the contents of zip files and if the file is > password protected it is blocked.. > > hc > > > Howard Cunningham, MCP > howa...@macrollc.com - personal > For technical support, send an email to serv...@macrollc.com or call > 703-359-9211 (24/7) > > -----Original Message----- > From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Michael Orlitzky > Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2016 11:27 AM > To: mailop@mailop.org > Subject: Re: [mailop] Should I be disappointed with Reflexion? > > On 04/14/2016 10:35 AM, Mark Keymer wrote: >> >> I do know that many hospitals, banks etc. Do use this type of >> encryption to e-mail the client and basically tell them to log into >> there web portal to view the encrypted e-mail. >> >> What other options are our there for sending encrypted e-mails? > > Problem: we want to ensure that a third party can't read our emails. > Solution: give those emails to a third party to put on the web. > > The user-unfriendly forms of encryption are unfriendly because they work. If > it doesn't have to work, I can make it real friendly =) > > A password-protected zip file works just as well as using a third party. > You still have the (unsolvable) problem of getting the password to the > recipient in a secure way, but at least you haven't given away the thing that > you're trying to keep secret. (How would you get the webpage password to the > recipient? Do that.) > > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop > > -- > ExchangeDefender Message Security: Click below to verify authenticity > https://admin.exchangedefender.com/verify.php?id=u3EGMQOu002383&from=howa...@macrollc.com > > > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
