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

["Micheal Espinola Jr" <michealespinola () gmail com>]

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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