At 9:39 AM -0800 11/30/01, Mark Hartman imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: >At 6:26 AM -0800 11/30/01, Nitai @ ComputerOil wrote: >>On 30.11.2001 3:06 PM, "David Muszynski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Yes of course. I wasn't paying attention again. I wonder if an >>>applescript >>> could be written to intercept messages going through the queue and simply >>> add [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the BCC field. >> >>That would be way cool. Anybody willing to incest some time.-) > >The proper term is actually "invest" - "incest" has an entirely different >meaning. :) > >You'll find a script to do this at: > ><ftp://ftp.harthaven.com/%2Fftp/pub/misc/Monitor%20outgoing%20SIMS%20mail> > >Please be warned that doing this could get you in all sorts of trouble, >and there is a disclaimer of liability to that effect in the script.
I.e. Mark won't take the blame if someone else happens to use the script in a legally unwise fashion. Which is very smart for Mark, since it is very possible to run afoul of privacy laws in some countries, and even in the US it is possible to do so with e-mail systems, as they are one of the few environments where there ARE privacy laws in the US. Before attempting to capture all outgoing mail thru anything that hooks into a mail server, make sure that you discuss it with a lawyer who knows about the ECPA or whatever laws apply in your country AND make sure the lawyer is aware that: 1. Capturing mail as it passes through the mail server is incomplete, since the people you are trying to watch may use other means to send mail, such as SMTP to external servers or webmail. If this is intended to monitor employee use of the net, it is a technically incomplete monitor unless you take other steps. 2. Email archives have been found to be discoverable and admissible in lawsuits, and in some cases courts have applied a presumption that the archiving entity is aware of the content of all messages. This is perilous. If you have a user who is doing something tortious via email, do you want a court assuming that you knew about it? 3. Using this method may not even catch everything that travels through the server, since SIMS won't be pausing for some folder-attached script to complete. This may have interesting legal effects. -- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
