Differentiate between Portal and Mail

[camkim_MDEA]

Anyone have any tips on how to allow people access to the Yahoo Portal, but not to the email portion?

[gswcowboy]

Hi,

Deny yahoo-mail but allow web-browsing. Please let me know if this doesn't work for you.

Regards,

Renato

[camkim_MDEA]

we allow web browsing, but deny the category of webmail.

However it needs access to login.yahoo.com which is classified as webmail, in order to access the yahoo portal.

[gswcowboy]

Hi,

You have to block the yahoo-mail application. I was able to log into the portal but mail is prohibited. See the screen shots attached.

Thanks,

Renato

[gswcowboy]

Hi,

Just following up on the issue your having with Yahoo mail and its associated portal.

Thanks,

Renato                

[camkim_MDEA]

Renato,

Are you saying that I should open the webmail category, but leave the yahoo mail application out of the allowed list of application to get access to the yahoo portal?

Isn't a deny application the same as not including it in the security rule?

[CRHC]

posted by accident - ignore

[gswcowboy · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Are you saying you've created an application filter that prohibits the email subcategory which are browser-based? If so, this should allow web-browsing application which would still provide login to the Yahoo portal but deny yahoo-mail application along with other browser-based email applications. Are you not able to produce this end result? Please advise.

Regards,

Renato

[camkim_MDEA]

Hi Renato,

Your last statement made more sense. (and that worked).

Our default security has a url filtering policy enabled that doesn't allow the category "WebMail".

In the end, I allowed login.yahoo.com as an allowed URL, while mail.yahoo.com was blocked due to the url filtering policy of WebMail being blocked.

[gswcowboy]

I'm glad you were able to get it resolved.