- I recived this messege today! I have a BB 8330 Curve from sprint. I use my
BB to receive and send email through my Army Knowledge online email account. I was wondering
if this true that BB security is not as good or better than the lowest
bidder government contracts. I think its funny that Microsoft gets a pass
on this.
Dear AKO User,
Results of a recent security audit have identified you as using POP or IMAP
to receive your AKO e-mail through a mail aggregator system such as Google
mail, Blackberry, or Team ON.
This action not only creates a security risk but also sets the conditions
for a possible compromise of your AKO username and password credentials.
Army regulations (AR 25-2 para 4-5a8) prohibit auto forwarding of official
mail to non official accounts and from providing your AKO credentials to
unauthorized individuals.
To prevent this risk and mitigate the potential for a possible compromise
of AKO user credentials, on June 24, 2009 AKO will be blocking access to
POP/IMAP from these types of sites.
You may still use webmail (webmail.us.army.mil) or IMAP via a client such
as Outlook, Outlook Express, or Thunderbird to retrieve your mail.
Directions for configuring IMAP can be found at help.us.army.mil under the
"Find Answers" link.
Since you have provided your credentials to a third party, it is highly
recommended that you reset your AKO password.
If you have any issues with IMAP or webmail, please contact the AKO
helpdesk.
Thank you.
AKO Postmaster (sh)
Army knowledge online is the email service provided to the Army.08-04-09 11:01 PMLike 0 - Well, I've been playing around a bit and found a program called redirect for outlook. Which just redirect the email instead of fowarding it. Best thing ever, all I have to do is leave my computer on with outlook running. Win!08-04-09 11:25 PMLike 0
- Well, looking at it from an IT stand point. The main reason that the army stopped the use of the blackberry servers is that people were giving their ako user name and passwords to 3rd parties. Hence, the whole reason for the ban in the first place. This circumvents that.08-05-09 09:22 AMLike 0
- No it is not. AKO bans forwarding to anything other than another .mil address. If you download onto your computer with Outlook then it is downloaded through the IMAP process which is authorized. Outlook then forwards the email without accessing any .mil servers which they cannot control unless the IMAP process is taken away. LogicMail is my only approach at this point because when I travel my laptop goes with me and and I want all of my mail to exist on that laptop as I travel. Someone just needs to link Logicmail to the device and all would be good.
BTW I work for DISA HQ and DISA is not responsible for AKO. The Army is with NETCOM really running day to day operations.08-05-09 09:56 AMLike 0 - I recived this messege today! I have a BB 8330 Curve from sprint. I use my
BB to receive and send email through my Army Knowledge online email account. I was wondering
if this true that BB security is not as good or better than the lowest
bidder government contracts. I think its funny that Microsoft gets a pass
on this.
Dear AKO User,
Results of a recent security audit have identified you as using POP or IMAP
to receive your AKO e-mail through a mail aggregator system such as Google
mail, Blackberry, or Team ON.
This action not only creates a security risk but also sets the conditions
for a possible compromise of your AKO username and password credentials.
Army regulations (AR 25-2 para 4-5a8) prohibit auto forwarding of official
mail to non official accounts and from providing your AKO credentials to
unauthorized individuals.
To prevent this risk and mitigate the potential for a possible compromise
of AKO user credentials, on June 24, 2009 AKO will be blocking access to
POP/IMAP from these types of sites.
You may still use webmail (webmail.us.army.mil) or IMAP via a client such
as Outlook, Outlook Express, or Thunderbird to retrieve your mail.
Directions for configuring IMAP can be found at help.us.army.mil under the
"Find Answers" link.
Since you have provided your credentials to a third party, it is highly
recommended that you reset your AKO password.
If you have any issues with IMAP or webmail, please contact the AKO
helpdesk.
Thank you.
AKO Postmaster (sh)
Army knowledge online is the email service provided to the Army.08-05-09 11:44 AMLike 0 - Please, people don't like to follow protocols. And with that, being prior military, I see no reason to have your AKO forwarded to a BlackBerry anyway. I NEVER used my AKO email for anything. It was pointless.08-05-09 11:47 AMLike 0
- He is downloading it from the AKO server and then forwarding it to a non .mil account. No different then reading an email and forwarding it to someone. The AR 25-2 issue is not an OPSEC issue. It is a port IPSEC issue.08-05-09 11:56 AMLike 0
- It has changed a little here recently. I never used AKO at all until I was deployed into the sandbox. Now I can't live without it.08-05-09 11:58 AMLike 0
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Obviously, I can tell you're military and if it's done correctly on the base, all your email should be bouncing off and being forwarded to your local bases email anyway, so there's no need. Plus, whatever I get in my AKO, **** it can wait until I can get to a computer.
However, I am one of those 'fortunate' ones who has a BlackBerry issued by the DoD so I get my AKO email on it all day and night.08-05-09 12:02 PMLike 0 - No, I know that. But if you're stateside and on base, why would you need to forward to a BlackBerry when you should have ample access to a computer that is connected to the DoD network?
Obviously, I can tell you're military and if it's done correctly on the base, all your email should be bouncing off and being forwarded to your local bases email anyway, so there's no need. Plus, whatever I get in my AKO, **** it can wait until I can get to a computer.
However, I am one of those 'fortunate' ones who has a BlackBerry issued by the DoD so I get my AKO email on it all day and night.08-05-09 12:06 PMLike 0 - I set up LogicMail the other day and swore I had everything downloaded from AKO. I removed the app from that device and installed it on my BB today. I can get the Sent Items and Trash to show up, but my AKO Inbox does not populate. I get no error messages.
Never mind - it works now. Just in case this helps anyone else, all I did between the first paragraph and this one was change the port on the Incoming server from 995 to 993 and added a reply-to email address in the Default Identity.08-21-09 01:16 PMLike 0 - 08-21-09 01:39 PMLike 0
- Did anyone get anywhere yet? I have a 9630 Tour I ran into a hour of headache before I was directed to this topic. It would have saved a lot of headache!!!!01-07-10 10:43 PMLike 0
- I think its crap that the Government picks is against blackberry like this! This is anther reason we can trust the BB traitor OBAMA!!!!! I know he has a IPhone now!!!!!01-26-10 11:39 AMLike 0
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