Safety Of Client Using Email On My Account

[cherryo]

I normally only offer clients email accounts when they purchase their own domain name (I design web sites). A client, however, chose to have a subdomain on one of my business' domains and chose to have an email account with the site. My question is whether there is a security risk in letting someone else use an email account on a domain that I use for my business. Of course, her username and password would be different and there's no reason to think she would try anything fishy but (and maybe this is a stupid question) is there anything she can do wrong with her account that would affect my own?

 

Thanks for the input and not making me feel stupid for what are often borderline if not outright silly questions.

[TCH-Thomas]

Hi,

I don´t think there are any danger of letting the client do this apart from that if the client sends spam your site will be suspended. However this I believe is the fact if the client uses its own domain name too.

[cherryo]

Wow. Fast reply. Thanks. And good point on the spam. Don't think she'd want to do that from her wedding email account, but I'll be sure to give a gentle reminder to her of that no-no.

[Head Guru]

Another thing to consider is your clients are not always the one sending the spam. They could have a insecure script that becomes exploited by a bad guy and this will directly impact your domain.

 

I would not offer this to the client, but that is just my view.

[TCH-Thomas]

Thanks Bill.

 

I forgot that.