ISPs' willingness to take action

Mon Oct 27 18:10:54 UTC 2003

Yeah, but what happens is when you use the web based interface and
non-outlook pop3/imap/smtp clients is that you lose access to things like
shared address books, shared calendars and other things which these people
depend on.  At least, from what I remember, Exchange 5.5 lacked these
features via the web based interface.  Might be different now.

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Brian Bruns
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Michael.Dillon at radianz.com>
To: "NANOG" <NANOG at merit.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 9:52 AM
Subject: RE: ISPs' willingness to take action

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> >VPN technologies are either too weak, like PPTP, too
> >expensive or difficult to grasp like IPsec, or too new
> >like the HTTPS tunnels.
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> A couple of years ago, I was working at a company that
> used Exchange for corporate email. They had a web version
> of Outlook that, I believe, was part of Exchange server.
> It is almost a no-brainer to put that up on an HTTPS server.
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> Due to the prevalence of online shopping and banking,
> even relatively clueless users understand how to look
> for the secure web browsing icon (key or lock). This is
> reasonably strong security, cheap to implement and easy
> to grasp. It's also been proven for almost 10 years now.
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> And if you don't like Outlook's web version, there is
> always one of the many web email packages like SquirrelMail
> http://www.squirrelmail.org/ which can use IMAP or POP
> (both supported on Exchange server) and which can be
> secured via SSL/HTTPS.
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> Somebody oughta sell a secure email box that plugs in
> between the Exchange server and the network and includes
> a secure SMTP server relay, secure POP server, secure
> IMAP server and secure web email interface. No doubt
> somebody already supplies boxes like this, and ISPs just
> have to start reselling them.
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> >I don't recall the source, but it was recently reported
> >that 40% of the exchange server base is still on the v5.5
> >platform.   Using that as a general indication, many of
> >these shops probably won't plan to upgrade anytime soon.
>
> According to Google, Exchange 5.5 does both POP and IMAP
> so the possibility of secure web mail service is there.
>
> Seems to me that you could sell some service and
> educate the users about safe email practices at
> the same time.
>
> --Michael Dillon
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