Capturing Outgoing Mail

[RoryJMcKenna]

The site administrator at one of my client locations needs to have a copy of all incoming and outgoing mail for one of his users forwarded to him... I'm not too sure what the employee is up to but it can't be good. They use my Linux Box to relay mail... (Sendmail) All mail is sent through that server... I have the incoming part taken care of with a .forward but out going has me stumped, is there any way to do this. Or does anyone know of third party software that can do this??

 

[ericbrunson]

It's simple in postfix, there's a directive for it. Sendmail, I'm afraid I can't help you with.

 

[inetd]

Then, what's the directive?

 

[ericbrunson]

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[BitFuzzy]

Just a bit of advise ..

It has been ruled that employees can exect a certain amount of privacy in the workplace.

If your clients admin is going to be doing this, he should post a network anouncement that he may be doing so time to time.

If the employee(s) is/are made aware of a company wide policy is being emplemented, they've got nothing to complain about.

 

[sleipnir214]

BitFuzzy is right -- provided the company and employee are in the EU.

The US has different rules.



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[gbaughma]

The rules, as I understand them, are thus:

1) Company computers, company business, company time, company property (in other words, you're using their computers, they can look at your e-mail)

HOWEVER

2) This has to be a policy in your company that's established; in other words, if there's a policy in place that STATES that your e-mail may be reviewed at any time, that's fine. If there's not, and you decide to "poke" around someone's e-mail (especially to trap them doing something wrong for discipline), then you may run into some legal troubles.

The rule of thumb as I've always heard it is "It's private unless the company says it isn't."

Of course, I may be wrong. Flames will be redirected to /dev/null

Just my $.02

--Greg

 

[flugh]

In my little bit of formal management training, I was told by a wise veteran of the game that "if you don't have it in writing with someone's signature, you never told them". So if I were to look into this and find that it's legal to do in the US, I'd still make sure I had a signature on a stated policy. It's scary how badly a disgruntled employee can hit an unsuspecting company these days. Almost seems to force companies into operating on the shady side of ethics.

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JBR