> The ISP staff are quite likely to use that same "personal" email address
> when logged in at home - which is a little more complicated to arrange
> (and would the employer in your story be prepared to facilitate that).
> The alternative is employees having three email addresses (home, work
> and work personal).
Again, as something like an ISP, this is something which we are happy to
support. It's pretty easy, anyway, after all it's merely a POP3 email
box, and you set all clients except one to leave mail on server. IMAP is
equally usable.
>
> Maybe it would be simpler to suggest the employees get a webmail account
> for the private email (and whatever address they like), and allow them
> to access that from work quite separately from their work email - at
> which point the employer's email systems don't have to be involved at all.
We prohibit this for security reasons. Webmail systems are inherently
insecure as you can't (self-evident) turn off HTML email formatting.
HTML email allows web bugs, malware and all sorts of DP as well as
security issues, particularly for Windows usersn (we are moving, slowly,
away from Windows)!
I am amazed that otherwise security conscious companies allow it on to
their machines!
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