From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 30 13:10:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5873737B719 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:10:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:10:05 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14j69G-0007jg-00; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:09:34 +0100 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:09:34 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant To: Roelof Osinga Cc: Rick Hamell , kevinm , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: email question In-Reply-To: <3AC4F044.511FD26A@nisser.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Roelof Osinga wrote: > Rick Hamell wrote: > > > > > Is there a way to filter outgoing email through our FreeBSD 4.0 email server > > > and have it check for certain words or statements, and if found, send a copy > > > to another email address without letting the sender or recipient know that > > > this happened? > > > > Probally.. but what are the moral and legal implications of doing > > so? > > Interesting. Since this is basically what virusscanners do, you're > suggesting it might be illegal if not immoral and unethical to > use a virusscanner in MTAs? ;) If misconfigured, it can be downright annoying. But legally, one use might be defensible whereas the other might be an invasion of privacy: the intention matters. Depending on where you live and your relationship with those people you're intercepting the email of, this might be illegal, perfectly allowable, or an absolute requirement if the government tells you to do it. That's for you to take up with a lawyer if you're worried. Anyroadup, what's the MTA? Stock sendmail, or have you replaced that? jan -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Unfortunately, I have a very good idea how fast my keys are moving. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message