[Exim] Lesgislation

I have seen several items on the list of late about "saving" email to
folders of your choosing. There is certainly a lot we can do with exim,
exiscan and spamassassin. I am concerned though that what I do needs to
comply with current legislation, like the DPA and RIPA.

Does anybody on the list have any pointers to guidance on this. I
understand under RIPA it is illegal to make an interception of an email
without both the sender and recipient agreeing. Obviously to comply with
that you would not be able to do any spam filtering or virus scanning.
And what about back ups? is that counted as an interception.

Whole thing seems a bit of a minefield to me. Is there a fairly straight
forward set of guidelines anywhere saying what you can and cannot do.

Ron (Befuddled of Loughborough)

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Ron McKeating
Senior IT Services Specialist
Internet Services and Software Solutions
Loughborough University
01509 222329