Educause Security Discussion mailing list archives
Re: Email Forwarding
From: Mike Patterson <mpatters () IST UWATERLOO CA>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:38:26 -0400
On 21/09/09 8:06 PM, Jay Graham wrote:
Q1: Do you allow forwarding of University email addresses internally and/or externally? (i.e. Allow username () pitt edu to forward to username () gmail com)
Yes. Or more exactly, we don't disallow it.
Q2: Do you treat students any differently than Faculty and Staff?
No.
Q3: If you don't allow forwarding, is more a technical reason or security reason?
Sort of a reverse answer for this one: there are some on campus who would like to disallow forwarding, but currently and for the forseeable future, our mail systems are so decentralized that it would be nearly impossible (politically) to do this. I can see compelling technical and security reasons to disallow forwarding. Mike
Current thread:
- Email Forwarding Jay Graham (Sep 21)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Email Forwarding Michael J. Wheeler (Sep 21)
- Re: Email Forwarding Patria, Patricia (Sep 22)
- Re: Email Forwarding Kenneth Arnold (Sep 22)
- Re: Email Forwarding Mike Patterson (Sep 22)
- Re: Email Forwarding Chris Steele (Sep 22)
- Re: Email Forwarding Stanclift, Michael (Sep 22)
- Re: Email Forwarding Valdis Kletnieks (Sep 22)