Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:47:47 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com>, hamellr@heorot.1nova.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: email question Message-ID: <15045.24947.102841.710362@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <52274599@toto.iv>
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Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> 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. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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