Yeh - my thoughts exactly - not exactly transparent with the email headers! Must just be their virus gateway or content filter. Been watching too much x-files ;)
Doesn't NZ have snooping laws allowing conversations to be recorded as long as only one party knows? Thought this could be a similar thing. -Dan On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:54 AM, lenz <[email protected]> wrote: > honestly, if they want to read (are required to let others read) your mails > then they don't put headers in mails. > from my days as ISP back in old europe i know that we were forced to have > "snooping devices" that can record email conversations but we needed a court > order to do so and every court order was limited to only one mail account. > the requirement was that it is impossible for the receiver to find out that > the mail was taped. not exactly the case if you write headers into mails :-) > i suspect some sort of virus scanner in this case. > cheers > lenz > (zip files are unpacked by virus scanners to effectively scan them btw) > > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Dan Khan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> We've been having a few issues with Telecom, who host our business >> email, truncating a particular email through their virus gateway which >> contained a zip file of 935Kb stating the file is too large - >> uncompressed this is 26MB so a little odd since it must be expanding >> the zip before calculating max size ?!, but this is an aside... >> >> Whilst trying to get to the bottom of this issue with Telecom, I >> noticed that the mail headers included a silent proxy through an mta >> at nz.eds.com. When I asked their complex tech support about what >> this server was for, he was very cagey and refused to tell me what it >> was - which obviously only served to pique my curiosity more! >> >> Now I know EDS from the UK as a major govt consulting entity, so I'm >> imagining this is a 'silent' email storage/filter maybe for government >> email snooping compliance. Is this just my conspiracy theorist >> imagination gone wild?? Does anyone know if NZ law requires ISPs to >> archive and store all emails going through their service for later >> retrieval for legal/national security reasons? >> >> Here's the headers: >> >> Received: from aamta01.nz.eds.com ([64.38.4.150]) by mta03.xtra.co.nz >> with ESMTP >> id >> <[email protected]>; >> Fri, 1 May 2009 13:14:24 +1200 >> Received: from mail.simpova.com ([64.38.4.150]) by aamta01.nz.eds.com >> with ESMTP >> id <[email protected]>; >> Fri, 1 May 2009 13:14:04 +1200 >> >> Or maybe it's just a simple a content filtering gateway... :-) >> >> Cheers, >> -Dan >> >> > > > > -- > iWantMyName.com > painless domain registration (finally) > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
