PRIVACY - Who gave your staff that expectation. If the employees are told that you will be doing it, and they are not to use email for personal reasons, then this is not.
Also to protect your company from harassment cases in the future, it may have to be done. You have to show due diligence in the operation of the company. Setting this up with out notifying the staff would be a breach of assumed privacy. Nothing is private on the Internet. We have this policy on me reading through employees mails, and we have even punished an employee for breaking our PORN email rules. As long as it is all stated and understood, then you have no legal problem doing this. By doing it on the SMTP server you also make sure you are catching all emails that are sent and the employee has not got 3-4 clients configured. Also when you have a low level sales agent you may want to make sure the supervisor knows all that he - she said to the outside world, and this makes sure that you as the supervisor sees everything. If you are running a Brokerage or insurance company you may want all emails sent to a central box which is archived off for accounting-legal purposes. This is the reason they also have Instant messaging on the firewall - gateway moved off to an archive also. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
