On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Ron McKeating wrote:
> 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.
Ron,
The MailScanner framework web site makes brief mention of this:
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/#links
but you'll spend days reading the pages off there.
MailScanner has the ability to save off emails under certain criteria.
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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services
University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
