Can I catch all Incoming/Outgoing user mail into one email a/c?

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Chickenwing

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As title.
Because I want to know all incoming or outgoing email from my users.
I can make a copy from them and monitor their email behavious.
The most important is that I can know what the work procedure or process
are?

thx
 
This has been discussed several times in these forums; the solutions are here.

Jeff
 
But where is here?
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This forum. You will need to do some searching here. Don't expect us to do the searching for you and then post links to the specific post. Most probably don't know how to do it from memory because most won't do it. If your customers find out you are reading their email they will promptly leave and rightfully so.
 
Floyd there are many reasons why a systems administrator would want to have copies of all email through the servers. In fact some countries are beginning to require it.

Jeff
 
I think the same rules should apply to email as snailmail. In the US if the postmaster of snailmail opens your mail and makes a copy of it before sending it to you then he will be arrested. I think the same should be true of email. The sender and the recipient have some expectation of privacy. But I guess this is a philosophical issue and people are going to have different opinions on this issue. I am thinking about encrypting all my email to friends and family now.
 
What you're missing is that it's not a philosophical issue; like it or not, it's a legal issue.

There are lots of laws in place all over the world requiring providers to store email. And the U.S. really isn't that far behind.

Additionally, lots of businesses want copies of all email sent to or from their domain name. That's certainly legal in the U.S., and in many cases may be required by law. Certainly it makes it easier to answer subpoenas. For example, if certain emails had been available in Washington, D.C., President Bush wouldn't currently be advising a former aide to ignore a congressional subpoena, an act which will probably end up seeing her in jail for contempt.

Years ago don't keep records might have worked. Today most of us feel uncomfortable if we don't keep all we can.

We don't keep the text of any email passing through our servers but we understand that we don't live in the same legal environment as some of our clients.

By the way, I suppose you know that google (gmail) keeps copies of all emails sent through their servers; even after you've deleted them. Read their TOS and you'll see that.

Jeff
 
They only are allowed to read your mail if they have sometihng to suspect you from doing.
Otherwise this would be totally Illegal.
You're right about laws demanding that mails are stored, but they may not be readed because an admin likes to, but only in case of suspicion of something ie: terrorist act.

Gr
 
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Not at all in the U.S., where gmail servers are located. Google owns the servers; they're allowed to do with your email whatever their terms of service says.

Really.

Jeff
 
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