On 2/7/07, "Schalk W. Cronjé" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I work for a European ISP, and I can confirm that this is not a worry. Even the rejected Traffic Data Retention proposals never required this. Here is the current proposition's extract in relation to what info must be retained, and its not the message content: 5. It is essential to retain data existing on public communications networks, generated in consequence of a communication, hereafter referred to as data, for the investigation, detection and prosecution of crimes and criminal offences, in particular those offences involving the use of electronic communications systems. This Framework Decision relates only to data generated as a consequence of a communication or a communication service and does not relate to data that is the content of the information communicated. In particular, it is necessary to retain data in order to trace the source of illegal content such as child pornography and racist and xenophobic material; the source of attacks against information systems; and to identify those involved in using electronic communications networks for the purpose of organised crime and terrorism. > South African Law also requires message retention. I can't find any web resources to support that. > > 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). Clearly this is outside of my jurisdiction, but from what I've heard it would strike me that SOX requires a caching email server, and courier's features already support this. Harry. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
