Re: [Exim] Lesgislation

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Author: Jethro R Binks
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To: 'exim-users@exim.org '
Subject: Re: [Exim] Lesgislation
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