Harry, > Since the poster doesn't cite any examples of what countries / what > legislation, then I could be wrong, but that post looks to me like > someone who got the wrong end of the stick about european traffic data > retention legislation where logs of data traffic, and not the data > itself, must be maintained. > > European ISPs I have dealt with are worried about the fact that full message retention might become law. In Europe this is complicated by matters of privacy as well.
South African Law also requires message retention. > Sarbanes-Oxley compliance in the USA might be a reason to archive > emails, but it makes more sense to do that at the primary mailserver > than at a gateway. > > SOX is one reason indeed. The issue with SOX is that it is actually unclear at this point whether it applies to all email entering the network as well, or just to the email reaching the primary mail servers (and obvisouly all internal email). -S ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
