Re: Securing webmail - changing a port necessary to ensure security?

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Date: 02/12/04

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    To: Jennifer Fountain <jfountain@rbinc.com>
Date: 12 Feb 2004 02:00:39 -0600

    You have partially answered your own question... I will add some
    comments...
    Many org's have such firewall / proxy settings... they do run into these
    kind of issues because there are some people who would use the uncommon
    ports but then they have to deal with them, if they have information, by
    modifying there rulesets for those domains which is a waste.

    Moreover if you can't convey each of the users about these settings
    (which would be true if you have MANY users), all you get is complaint
    calls and users dropping out of your service because they do not have
    this problem accessing the other webmail provider's service.

    HTH

    Aman

    On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 10:02, Jennifer Fountain wrote:
    > I am going back and forth on this one with a consultant on this one and
    > need an expert opinion. So, I turn to you :) When configuring webemail
    > (such as owa) that is using https, is it better to change the default
    > port (443) to an uncommon port (20000)for security reasons? Does it
    > secure it further by doing this? Wouldn't it cause more issues than
    > anything if you try to access that site from inside an org that only
    > allows port 80/443 and 21 out?
    >
    > Thank you in advance for any opinions you may share.
    >
    > Kind Regards,
    >
    > Jennifer Fountain
    >
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