On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, .|MoNK|Cucumber . wrote: > The reason behind it is so that if you by mistake email a document to an > invalid recipient, at least you have mentioned that if you are not the > intended recipient to delete it, and not to forward it on.
But how the heck does the recipient *know for sure* she is not the intended recipient? OK, sometimes it is obvious, but not always. > For example, if someone gets a confidential email that has no > disclaimer, he has the right to say he wasn't warned that he could not > share that info elsewhere. I'm not arguing that you shouldn't put CONFIDENTIAL at the top, bottom, sides, or anywhere else you want on confidential email. But I also suggest you sign and encrypt it. Then any "unintended recipient" won't even be able to read it. And anyway, surely you don't want to put CONFIDENTIAL on *all* email? So it has to be done case-by-case. Or do you? > Anyways, I've used many appliances/server mail software that do have a global > disclaimer setting, where you can indeed specify the font/size location of it, > etc... I rather doubt that these were MTAs. MUAs, yes. But if you sent me an email with font/size stuff in it, it wouldn't do you much good, as I read my email in a plaintext MUA. > My ignorance is with Exim only, I'm new to it. Ignorance is not an issue! Removing ignorance is one of the goals of this list. :-) > I now see that it cannot be done with Exim very easily, so we will just have > users append it manually to all their signatures instead (quite the hassle). If you can write code that does what you want - and this is not easy, because it would involve unpacking MIME parts etc - you can run it in a transport filter in Exim. But it wouldn't work for messages that were encrypted and/or signed. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714. Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
