I am netadmin/helpdesk/comp-gofer for a smallish corp. Recently the corp reorganized and brought in some "consultants" who are not very bright (but that's another post entirely).

My problem is this: one of the consultants uses AOL at home, and insists on having free access to AOL from within my corporate network. I see this as a grave breach of security and have refused until now to open the firewall to allow him access.

However, he doesn't understand the security risk despite my many explanations of why/how it is a risk. I've also given him reams of paperwork on the subject which very clearly states the problems with allowing AIM and AOL access from within a corporate network.

He's throwing his weight around, and I am 98% certain that the powers-that-be are simply going to tell me that I have to allow him the access. Since my department consists entirely of myself with nobody else in the corporation who understands anything about networking, security, firewalls, etc I'm in a bad situation.

Is there any way from within AOL to set it to forward email? I have no idea since I wouldn't touch AOL with someone else's 10-ft pole. Is there any way that I can set my Exchange server to go out and retrieve his AOL email for him? I'd much rather have it pass through my protected server than have him with an open connection to the outside world.

There's no hope in going to my boss; he is a clueless wonder in relation to computers -- took him 10 months after he started working here to wander into my office and ask me "What exactly do you do here?" He always sides against me in decisions because doesn't know dick about my job...