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Re: Checkpoint or other Solution required
From: Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:56:07 +0200
On 2008-07-12 Rob Thompson wrote:
Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers wrote:And you want to reject (not bounce!) the mail instead of dropping it, otherwise you might get into legal trouble (depending on your country's jurisdiction).Can you please clarify on your comment above? How could that land you in legal trouble?
In Germany for instance you could be violating § 206 (2) StGB (German criminal law) by dropping a message directed at one of the company's employees, e.g. in a situation where employees are allowed to use their e-mail account privately and haven't given express permission to drop particular messages (e.g. spam). To avoid legal issues you either just tag incoming messages and leave it to the user to deal with them, or you reject the message in the SMTP dialog to inform the sender that his message was not accepted. Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "All vulnerabilities deserve a public fear period prior to patches becoming available." --Jason Coombs on Bugtraq
Current thread:
- Checkpoint or other Solution required Taiwo Adekoya (Jul 12)
- Re: Checkpoint or other Solution required Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Jul 12)
- Re: Checkpoint or other Solution required Rob Thompson (Jul 12)
- Re: Checkpoint or other Solution required Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Jul 14)
- Re: Checkpoint or other Solution required ॐ aditya mukadam ॐ (Jul 14)
- Re: Checkpoint or other Solution required Rob Thompson (Jul 12)
- Re: Checkpoint or other Solution required Rob Thompson (Jul 12)
- Re: Checkpoint or other Solution required Andrea Gatta (Jul 14)
- Re: Checkpoint or other Solution required Javier Reyna Padilla (Jul 24)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Checkpoint or other Solution required Taiwo Adekoya (Jul 28)
- Re: Checkpoint or other Solution required Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Jul 12)