Re: [Exim] Adding a disclaimer to out going emails

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Autor: John W Baxter
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A: 'exim-users@exim.org'
Asunto: Re: [Exim] Adding a disclaimer to out going emails
At 1:46 +0300 6/15/2000, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
>> >  3. It is illegal under German and Dutch law to change the body of
>> >     a mail message in transit.  It might potentially be illegal in
>> >     the UK under European law.

>>
>> Is the message, per that law, "in transit" when it is still bouncing around
>> inside the originating mail system? The law could be clear one way or the
>> other; it might not be.
>
>I think it should be defined as "in transit". The use's MUA has
>sent the message already. Often, the tampering (adding
>disclaimers and such) is done on the mail hub, after it has
>already left the sender's machine. No matter if it's Windoze or
>UNIX. What would you say if the local post office were adding
>disclaimers to your paper mail?


The context here is a company email system. Company owns the MUAs, the
machines they run on, and the MTA and the machine(s) it runs on. I still
question whether the message is "in transit" until it emerges from that
environment. If a pawn (er, employee) objects and the local law doesn't
support the objection, he/she can leave.

In the context of an ISP with public accounts, your post office analogy is
correct. I wasn't speaking about that.

...

>> Alternative (which fails for encrypted mail without provisions for the MTA
>> to decrypt outgoing mail to check):
>>
>> The sender is required to add the disclaimer, via the signature mechanism
>> in the MUA. The MTA refuses to send along messages which don't meet that
>> requirement, bouncing them back to sender and/or sender's boss.
>
>Ah. What about really official messages, like press releases and
>such sent by mail? Official press releases don't represent the
>views of the company, do they?


A different (controlled access) MTA.

And I indeed have seen reports of seemingly-official press releases having
emerged with disclaimers.

--John (no one would want my opinions...I'm stuck with them)