In response to Paul Mansfield:
> I thought this an excellent and reasoned argument to allow mail archiving.
> Let's face it, corporations can and do
> - monitor inbound/outbound faxes
> - monitor phone calls (e.g. telesales to insurance)
> - open mail unless marked "personal/confidential"
> * if it became a built-in function to Exim, an "X-Header-Archived:" header
> explaining that secure/encrypted/compressed archive of all mail was kept,
> would be a good way of ensuring people wouldn't forget that they were "in
> camera" so to speak when mailing.
There is a very different set of circumstances where something similar
but a bit different would be needed. That is when the police or
judicial authorities require an individual's email to be "tapped" as
evidence. I believe that in some countries this could be required --
in the same way as post can be opened and phones tapped, with a
suitable court order -- for example to break a ring of child
pornographers or fraudsters. Whatever one thinks of this, if the law
requires it, it needs to be done _without_ informing the suspect. Of
course the archive needs to be private -- ideally only accessible by
the police / examining magistrate.
Gyan.
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