Re: Email Policy Changes

[Robin Wood <robin () digininja org>]

On 17 January 2011 15:40, Craig Freyman <craigfreyman () gmail com> wrote:
> Our lawyers are demanding a drastic change in the way we handle email at our
> company. This will be a huge change for our working culture here and I am
> anticipating major backlash from the users, but "It is what it is."  I was
> hoping the pauldotcom list would think of ways around their policy. I'll
> have to develop controls to try and stop people from doing so.
> Here is what they want to do:
> Only keep 60 days of email, everything will be deleted on a rolling basis.
> You can choose to save specific emails to your home drive and that space
> will be capped.
> Putting my nefarious user hat on, these are the ways around the policy as I
> see it:
>
> Upload email to a dropbox type account.
> Saving to USB drives
> Accessing webmail from a non-company computer and saving it there
> CD Burning
> Forwarding to external email accounts IE gmail, hotmail
> Saving to other places on the network
>
> Anyone have any other ideas?

A slight variation on what you've already said, forward to yourself at
the same inbox after it has been there for a while. That way the date
stamps would be wrong but you could forward the whole lot yourself
after 50 days then again after another 50....

Robin
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