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Hi,

Quick Question. Company is running exchange server local for emails, the previous tech guy setup the
forwarding of mail to public account. @vodamail to be specific.
So once the messages to specific person is received on exchange it forwards to the public account.
Is there anyway to control the read receipts. To mark the message as read once the vodamail account has read the
mail on the public server, so it doesn't show unread on the exchange still.
Any help?
 
No,read receipts are only effective for the original mail,your forward is making a new copy

I do have to ask why this convoluted setup?
 
PsyWulf said:
No,read receipts are only effective for the original mail,your forward is making a new copy

I do have to ask why this convoluted setup?
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Not sure, I think they want to allow the user to read the emails on cell phone.. No idea why the exchange account couldn't just be setup on the iphone...
Could be using forwarding due to exchange running local?
 
Fransh said:
Not sure, I think they want to allow the user to read the emails on cell phone.. No idea why the exchange account couldn't just be setup on the iphone...
Could be using forwarding due to exchange running local?
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Hmm. Could just expose exchange over imap on port 143. Allows synced reading and works well on iphone
 
Fransh said:
Wouldn't this be allowing extra security risk?
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I haven't seen any exploits based on IMAP protocols to allow more than accessing email. And this risk is just as high as using an external mail account and accessing it over pop3/imap (being that you are likely not using SSL to encrypt the communication)

In fact you can enable SSL for your exchange imap which the vodamail provider likely does not offer
 
PsyWulf said:
No,read receipts are only effective for the original mail,your forward is making a new copy
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Agreed.

Fransh said:
Hmm. Could just expose exchange over imap on port 143. Allows synced reading and works well on iphone Wouldn't this be allowing extra security risk?
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You have company emails being sent to a @vodamail address which is most likely not in your control. That is already a pretty big security issue. Depending on the data being sent the POPI act would have a field day..
There are app's you can use to connect via your puplic facing IP most likely.
 
Odly said:
Agreed.



You have company emails being sent to a @vodamail address which is most likely not in your control. That is already a pretty big security issue. Depending on the data being sent the POPI act would have a field day..
There are app's you can use to connect via your puplic facing IP most likely.
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Thanks, ill ask the tech guy to look into that.
The security excuse never made sense to me either..
 
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