RE: Blocking Outlook External POP/SMTP

["Christian Campbell" <ccampbell () brueggers com>]

> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for information on preventing/prohibiting users from
> utilizing
> Outlook (at work) to retrieve their personal email from Gmail, AOL,
> Yahoo,
> Comcast, Verizon, etc.
>
> Looking for the following:
>
> * Reasons why users should not be allowed to use Outlook on their work
> computers to retrieve their personal email.
>
> * Tools/techniques to block this type of traffic. It seems the most
> common
> ports are 110, 465, 587, 993, and 995. Are there others?

If you specifically want to keep users from configuring Outlook to add
accounts, use simply enforce group policy and/or create a customized
transform to lock down the configuration.  

Christian


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