Hi Matt,
Would the settings only be applicable to Spark clients or would this just be a convenient place to include the configuration settings server-wide? For the purposes of content filtering it’'s always better to filter at the server rather than rely on the client as clients other than your own or hacked derivatives would bypass the settings.
Would like to block pretty much all binary transfers between our server and other servers on the internet. The goal here is to make outside suppliers and some personal use of messaging safe. In some circumstances we may wish to “trust” some specific servers and enable this functionality.
-*Force all file transfers to go through an anti-virus check.
Always useful for any transfers, not sure how the mechanics would work.
-*Allow internal transfer, but disable file transfer to those not in the company.
Good, but perhaps in the domains whitelist for connections we could mark a particular server/domain as trusted for transfers.
-*Only allow file transfer of certain file types.
Unless the server acts as an intermediary for the file transfer and can use some unix “magic” style file identification techniques I doubt that this would be very reliable, it can’'t hurt but might give a false sense of security.
-*Only allow file transfer for certain groups of users.
Being able to whitelist certain users would make a great deal of sense, particularly those working on a helpdesk who are providing technical support for instance.
Thanks
Jason.