* Quanah Gibson-Mount <[email protected]>: > --On Thursday, February 11, 2016 5:56 PM +0100 Mark Martinec > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>It's illegal to quarantine in some countries. ;) > > > >What you probably meant is that discarding a message is illegal > >(i.e. not delivering and not notifying a sender of non-delivery). > > > >Quarantining by itself is independent from the above requirement, > >although it may be subject to privacy and data retention regulations. > > Hm, I thought the issue with Germany at least, was that it's not > legal to interfere with the delivery of the message. For private > e-mail, that includes "looking" at it (such as marking it as spam, > etc), depending on the court who hears the case. I would think > quarantine would fall under that.
Nope. You must not accept a message and discard it. But you may accept and hold (read: quarantine) it, *as long* as you notify the recipient about it. The reason many admins in Germany (and probably elsewhere as well) try to avoid quarantine is that the tend to cause extra work. p@rick -- [*] sys4 AG https://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein
