Re: Gmail, etc. - Forwarding Email to Personal Accounts!

[Mike Wiseman <mike.wiseman () UTORONTO CA>]

Gmail, etc. - Forwarding Email to Personal Accounts!I agree with Geoff - the aspects of email security such as 
authentication, privacy, archival, etc. apply to institutional as well as external email service providers. 

Our institution is experiencing a non security-related but problematic issue with forwarding email: block list and 
tarpitting by third party providers who detect spam or virus laden email forwarded (not originating) from institutional 
servers. The provider then restricts or blocks *all* email from our domain. Just when we're trying to fully integrate 
email into student-institution communications.

Regards,

Mike


Mike Wiseman
Manager - Computer Security Administration
Computing and Networking Services
University of Toronto  

  Sadler, Connie wrote: 


    Hi, all. we have more and more people (faculty and staff as well as students) who want to forward their 
work-related messages, as well as their personal messages, to one central email account, usually gmail. Obviously, I am 
concerned about having potentially sensitive university email content sitting on a gmail server. What are you folks 
doing to manage these sorts of requests? Are you preventing staff or faculty from doing this? If so, how has that 
worked? We are rapidly moving toward expectations people have of having all of their messaging funneled to one place, 
and while this is certainly convenient, I'm quite concerned about how we can ensure a reasonable level of security.

    Thanks - 

  We encourage our people to forward their Wayne State e-mail to another account if they regularly use other accounts 
(i.e. rather than not read our sparkling prose at all), but people shouldn't be sending that kind of sensitive e-mail 
anyway--or at least not without encrypting it.  Not that we've suggested encrypting either...

  Geoff

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