First of all: I'm not a lawyer > YES! The thing that Germany did is that they put electronic mail on the > same level as normal snail mail. And each mail addressed to some one is > belonging to that person. No matter if the person sits at home on a > private mail or if the person sits in a office behind a corporate mail.
This is probably no speciality of german law. You're in trouble if you delete mails without knowledge of the recipient. In my opinion you may be in trouble too if you're sending DSNs instead as long as the recipient assumes all mails addressed to him will be delivered to him. From the recipients point of view there's no difference between rejecting or deleting mails. The mail is just not delivered to his inbox. > The mail addressed to him belongs to him. As a juristic entity (the > company) you can request to look and read that mail but you need to > request it from the official owner (the user). You could do it without > asking the user but the line between legal and illegal is very thin in > that matter. I don't 100% understand everything my self. I am just an > observer from another German speaking country. This may be special to Germany. Representatives of a company may not read private mails of employees. Since no one knows if a mail is private without reading it the company may not read any mails of employees. The simple solution: companies forbid the usage of company mail addresses for private mails. This also solves the problem if a mail filtering system may or may not be used on private mails. For an ISP the question is not if mails are rejected, quarantained or deleted. The question is if the recipient knows about it - and is accepting it :) Greetings Bernd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
