Re: Securing Email

[Jonathan Smith <smithj () freethemallocs com>]

On Friday 21 December 2007 14:52, JD Brown wrote:
> Hi list, I would like to get some suggestions regarding products out
> there to secure email.  Preferably, I'd like to see an appliance that
> could make the process as transparent as possible to the user.  Any
> input would be greatly appreciated.

Secure against... what? There's only so much you can do to secure email 
without greatly affecting your users, but I'll list a few suggestions.

 * Configure SMTP mail servers to use TLS. for clients which use tls (most do 
these days) this makes MITM impossible for mail in-transit 
 * configure pop/imap to use SSL/TLS. this prevents MITMs for mail being 
downloaded by end-users 
 * use SpamAssassin for spam filtering. you can pretty easily set up a script 
to run over a folder called "Junk" to learn junk mail and tell users to just 
put junk in that folder instead of deleting it
* ClamAV for anti-virus. its free, high quality, and did I mention free?

        smithj