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| company’s e-mail system is not properly | | | | that can occur between the point a message |
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| to add here, of course, that need to be taken | | | | abuse. The administration services that are |
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| many others. | | | | The majority of such monitoring services offer |
| On the other hand, if talking about e-mail | | | | their costumers customers the possibility to |
| monitoring the situation is slightly different as the | | | | choose if they want to outsource the high-risk |
| same steps do not entirely apply. Take into | | | | and resource-heavy administration function and |
| consideration that telneting into an e-mail server in | | | | allow their businesses to concentrate on other |
| a specified port is quite easy and still very similar | | | | core office and system administration tasks or to |
| with the procedure used for monitoring the web | | | | do it themselves. |