Unable to check yahoo mails.

Hello There


Sorry No! Unles your sysadmin is prepared to give your IP a route outon the firewall.
I am a sysadmin, and also enforce this policy, it the quickest route onto a network for viruses and other malicious code, as it bypasses my mail security system.

PeteL

Yes. You can approach the sysadmin and ask him/her to open the port for you. If you ask nicely, unless the blockage is the sysadmin own policy (not corporate) maybe he/she will open it for you.

I'm doubting any good sysadmin will open a port for a user to goof off at work.  You would have to be a supermodel/Playboy bunny for that to work with me!  Try using your personal mail at home!

Preekish - Why not just use another free webmail service that your sysadmin doesn't know about (yet!) There are tens of thousands...... If you want to be really clever register your own domain with register.com for example (not too expenisive) and use that - if they get on to that then just give that address out to all your friends and keep switching the forwarder to the new webmail.

I thought EE stood for Expert's Exchange. Otherwise they would have called it SysAdmin's Exchange.

Fact of the matter is too many companies are reading too many people's email and it makes me (and I'm sure a lot of other people on EE) sick. I'm sure lovely, free, anonymous webmail will soon be outlawed globally under America's next Patriot Act so get into it while you can.

A quick aside: Staff wasting time on email and the web is the problem of their line managers, not the IT department.

People could waste time before they had 'net access. Over-restrictive corporate *censorship* policies are largely ineffective and cause pain for the help desk. Not to mention annoy senior staff who don't appreciate being treated like children. In any case this is a key component of an Enterprise Security Policy which needs to be given a mandate from the top down. I don't know that many ISO 17799 compliant admins. And I help companies write their security policies.

It has been my experience that making all staff sign an Acceptable Usage Agreement and then enforcing it by firing a few avid time wasters (goof-offs?) is the best way to stop corporate Internet misuse. Also helps to keep you out of court for wrongful dismissal etc...

And constantly audit your SysAdmins to make sure they are practicing what they preach ;-)

Good sysadmins will enforce corporate's policy, not their own :)

These policies are usually for more than *censorship* and stopping (goof-offs?).  For one thing, email is the simplest entry method for a virus into network.  Thus IT scans incoming emails for viruses and blocks other sources of email from accessing the network.  Yeah sure, some sysadmins may read peoples email but that shouldn't give sysadmins in general a bad name!  

Yeah well plenty of excellent software about to scan http, whatever, at the gateway/proxy level. I'm not trying to give sysadmins a bad name - I'm just not a big fan of "do what I say, not what I do..."

I used to work for a major anti-virus vendor and I hate to say that the IT department is typically the largest source of virii in an enterprise. If you want some stats on this then let me know.

So - Preekish - did you find yourself some webmail pleasure despite the nasty people trying to stop you?

fergo - Im a sysadmin and like any other sysadmin we are all human - theres bad ones and good ones!! as in any trade!

Encouraging anyone to bypass their firms security policy punishes the sysadmins out there who are working very hard to provide you with good customer service,

If the poster dosnt have an Email server on their network them fair enough, It would be a pretty harsh sysadmin that would block web based EMail as well! BUT why arnt they using there corporate EMail address! the only reason for doing this is to bypass monitoring, or the content has nothing to do with work!

I have 3 exchange servers that scan all incoming/outgoing mail for Viri, VBscript, Spam,Bad language, executables, and encrypted files. This protects my network! not because I want to read anyones Emails? last month I got 7679 Emails to me personally, ive got enough to do reading my own!


PeteL