The lot of you that choose to argue and insult those that wish to use
appended disclaimers/footers are merely wasting peoples time.
The fact of the matter is that companies do use disclaimers/footers, and it
was a simple question regarding if it was possible with Exim.
The thread is not a debate on whether or not to use them, just a how-to
question.
Many major mail software companies provide disclaimer/footer ability:
http://www.atmail.com
http://www.gfi.com/mes/mesfeatures.htm
http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/downloads/spam_firewall_outbound_mode_datasheet.pdf
http://www.policypatrol.com/disclaimer_tips.htm
E-mail disclaimer do also reduce a degree of liability by proving a company
has acted responsibly:
http://www.emaildisclaimers.com/#Whatare
Please do not argue about whether or not you disagree with companies using
disclaimers/footers, that is and was not the point of my initial post.
This list should be used for technical assistance and help in accomplishing
tasks with Exim, not to engage in childish debates.
I of course saw the listed method on Exim's site, but thought someone would
know of an easier or better way to customize it even further.
I've not instead purchased the Exim official book to try and find some help
seeing that people on this list are focussed more in insults than
assistance.
Thanks.
>From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@???>
>Reply-To: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@???>
>To: ".|MoNK|Cucumber ." <realcucumber@???>
>Subject: Re: [exim] Easy Disclaimers with Exim?
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>[ On Thursday, July 7, 2005 at 00:04:15 (-0700), .|MoNK|Cucumber . wrote: ]
> > Subject: [exim] Easy Disclaimers with Exim?
> >
> > According to Exim's site, it is difficult and not recommended to use
> > disclaimers.
> >
> > However, most companies still require it, as it at least serves as some
>form
> > of disclaimer in case of error.
>
>Then most companies must have management that can't follow more than two
>logical consecutive steps in a simple thought process.
>
>Show your management my anti-disclaimer disclaimer:
>
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>
>This e-mail puts you on notice that I will not be bound by your
>confidentiality notice and will feel free to review, disclose,
>distribute, archive, laugh at, be amused by, poke fun publicly at,
>and/or publish anything I get in e-mail, either directly or indirectly,
>and whether intended for me or not, without any further notice. If you
>don't feel comfortable with that, I suggest that you not send any
>e-mail, especially not to me or any mailing list I might subscribe to;
>or at least that you always use strong digital encryption to ensure that
>your e-mail can't be read by anyone other than its intended
>recipient(s). There are many ways to do this, including using such
>widely available tools as PGP, GPG, or even S/Mime.
>
>So in fact what you have done by adding such a lame and powerless
>disclaimer is to say in effect "We are adding this disclaimer because we
>acknowledge we are not taking sufficient measures to properly and truly
>protect our e-mail traffic by using encryption tools as we should be
>doing...."
>
>I apologize to you if it was not your decision to add this notice to
>your e-mail. However, given the number of places that have legalized
>shrink wrap licenses and the similarity of your notice to same, I feel
>like it is incumbent on me to put you and your company on notice
>immediately regarding my rejection of your disclaimer. Please forward
>this message to whoever in your legal department or management chain you
>deem as appropriate.
>
>
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>
>If you and/or your PHB still think your mailer should automatically
>attach a stupid disclaimer like this one to all your outgoing e-mail
>then please also read this:
>
> <URL:http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/>
