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Endpoint Client Email Alerting - SMTP Configuration

CRZ_RPC

Sophos Endpoint Security & Control v10.0

Am I missing something, or is it not possible to configure authentication, when setting up email alerting, and configuring the SMTP server?

Am I required to esentially configure our Exchange server(s) as internal open relays?  If this is the case, then any application running on any PC on our network will be able to use our Exchange servers.

For a security product to require such a security risk from another product seems madness.

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    Hello CRZ_RPC,

    Email Alerting is a relic and IIRC predates the console. Personally I don't see the value in it - except for sites with just a few dozen devices. Email Alerting only makes sense if you take more or less immediate action - so likely the devices are inside your network. Setting up a "limited" SMTP if you have otherwise (only) your Exchange environment is not rocket science.

    Email Alerting is neither a required not a vital function.

    Christian

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    We use email-notification too for two reasons:

    1.) The responsibility to clean up viruses is distributed among the it-staff of several branches. These people are client-administrators, but they have no administrative sophos-console.

    2.) Especially in the age of smartphones and pushmail, it is easier to recognize a mail with an av-alert than to have the console open at all times.

    Concerning your issue: You may configure Exchange to accept anonymous smtp-mail from dedicated systems like your EC-server. The following technet-article covers Exchange 2010, if you use 2007 or 2013 you may look it up in Technet yourself.

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232021(v=exchg.141).aspx

    Regards,

    Detlev

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