Re: Using Web mail (hotmail, gmail, yahoo, etc) for Business mails

["Michal Merta" <michal.merta () gmail com>]

Hi list,

well, I think it's really dangerous to use free mails for business purposes.
People shouldn't send and receive confidential information that way.
Mails are stored on 3rd party server (at least for a while), you never
know, what they are doing with emails. (grep confidential *) :)
Also if someone receives a business-oriented email from free mail
address it's suspicious and unprofessional.
If you need to work from home, use some client VPN solution, this is
the best I can say.
Regards, Michal

P.S. I have the same opinion about using company emails for mailing
lists - don't do that

On 10/16/06, Micheal Espinola Jr <michealespinola () gmail com> wrote:
> The two reasons I see it as a bad ideas because are: 1.) you are more
> likely to be subject to DNSBL blocking (risk:loss of information), and
> 2.) it looks unprofessional (risk:corporate identity).
>
> Confidentiality is subjective to the policies of the provider and are
> not necessarily the same across them all.  Most anything discussed
> here would be speculation in one form or another, except that by
> signing up fora free web mail provider you are very typically entering
> an agreement that can be modified by the provider at their discretion
> without your notification, acknowledgement or agreement.
>
> The potential information security risks run the full spectrum of
> possibilities under such circumstance.
>
>
> On 16 Oct 2006 06:00:16 -0000, sfmailsbm () gmail com <sfmailsbm () gmail com> wrote:
> > Dear List,
> >
> > It is a common practice among users to user their personal email accounts like hotmail, gmail, etc to send & receive 
> business (and most probably confidential) information
> >
> > This is particularly the case when users are out of office
> >
> > These webmails are not under the company's control, and hence there is a risk of information loss. However upto now 
> we have not heard of any such cases
> >
> > Wanted to get the opinion of the list on the security risks of the use of Webmails for business mails
> >
> > Thanks & regards
> >
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