>There are a lot of people who know the "implications" of this. They are >called lawyers (no, I'm not one nor do I shill for them). I suggest you >ask one before you do it, especially since you've gone "public" with the >fact that you know there may not be something kosher about doing this. >And talk to one familiar with your state laws; they vary and so may your >mileage. > > > Does anyone know if it is possible to snoop on emails sent through a >RaQ3 > > or > > 4.
Good advice - but a company can limit what is used on their servers. Just like any intellectual property a company owns, since business is done by email they (I believe) own it as well if it comes through their servers. In theory, again, I believe, even if an employee gets work email at home it is officially the company's property. But as an ISP I would not get involved on a server you own. If the customer owns the server that is another story. The customer will get caught by a mad (embarrassed) employee who hires a civil liberties lawyer, the boss doesn't want to be bankrupted in legal bills so he/she plays dumb and who gets blamed - YOU. We wrote a program to solve a very different problem - it is Windows based (as most of our email clients are) software that monitors incoming attachments for illegal file extensions. If any user on the LAN gets an MP3 for instance (or an EXE which could have a virus, or a ZIP which can contain an EXE with a virus - the user defines the legal/illegal extensions) , as soon as it is received, our program steals it and puts it in the MIS department's QUARANTINE folder for scrutiny. A log file tells them where the file came from should they want to give it back to the original recipient after scrutiny. Unfortunately, the bandwidth is not saved as we only look for files once they have arrived. This is different than what you are trying to do but bosses have similar problems - MP3's eating drive space, EXE's with viruses, etc. Jale. _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
