Re: [LIH] Log Outgoing Mail

[Sudhakar Chandra <thaths@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[Note: Moving to LIG]

Suresh Ramasubramanian proclaimed:
> Sudhakar Chandra rearranged electrons thusly:
> > I suspect that the content are of the most interest to this "someone".
> In a corporate environment, where company email is almost like a company
> letterhead, and especially in cases like where the company is a bank /
> insurance firm etc, the firm may *have* to monitor all incoming and outgoing
> email traffic - purely as a part of official correspondence (and the mails
> usually come with those ten-para legal notices at the bottom)

When it is so easy to fake emails, it is stupid (not on your part.  on
the part of people who think this way) to assume that emails supposedly
from some corporation is like the corporation's letterhead.  What is to
prevent me from editing my mbox file and creating a totally ficticious
email that supposedly came from you?  Or better still, take an email
that I really did get from you and change the contents of it?

This /have/ to monitor is the sorry excuse that corporations always give
for running a police state within the confines of the company.  As long
as the corporations have made it clear to their employees that (a) their
corporate email address is a luxury, (b) ther corporate email address
could be monitores and (c) the employees have to keep in mind that they
are representing their company when they use the company's email addr.,
the corporation is home free from legal troubles.

What if I send PGP encrypted mails insulting my customers using my
company's email addr.  What good is all this screening?

Thaths