Re: Checkpoint or other Solution required

[Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

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
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