From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 30 20:47:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 884B737B718 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 20:47:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 8956 invoked by uid 100); 31 Mar 2001 04:47:47 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15045.24947.102841.710362@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:47:47 -0600 To: Roelof Osinga , hamellr@heorot.1nova.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: email question In-Reply-To: <52274599@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roelof Osinga types: > 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? ;) It's the *outgoing* mail and *copying* that's the interesting part. According to at least one frequent poster here, MS *expects* ISPs to scan incoming mail for viruses. I expect that most ISPs have spam filters on incoming mail that do some kind of scanning as well. How many of them save copies of the mail, though? If the scanned mail belongs to your employees and the employment contract specifies that any mail moving through company equipment belongs to you (generally a good idea these days), then it's perfectly legal and moral to scan outgoing mail. One client of mine found a copy of the source to their premier product being sent out via email. They weren't scanning - the destination mailbox filled up, the bounces then filled the senders mailbox, so they started going to the company postmaster, who recognized them. FWIW, The World was recently sued for damages because their spam scanners dropped some non-spam mail. The court upheld their right to do this. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message